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CROSS CAMPUS Every college. Ezra Stiles
College held Medieval (K)night this weekend, bringing out Stilesians dressed in yellow and black garb and bearing swords and shields. The students marched throughout campus and eventually swarmed the courtyards of “every college.” “A big, big, big thanks to those of you who participated in Medieval Knight, who jousted in the courtyard, who donned helmets, and who raised swords & shields to expand this benevolent empire — leaving no doubt about Moose Dominance,” Ezra Stiles Master Stephen Pitti wrote in an email to students.
Tangled Up in Crowds. Folk
singing group Tangled Up in Blue held its bi-annual “Bees and Cheer” concert Saturday evening. The concert marked the 25th anniversary of TUIB, bringing out alumni like TUIB founder Nerissa Nield ’89. For many seniors, the night was emotional: A number were spotted crying after a particularly energetic rendition of “Wagon Wheel.”
W. TENNIS ELIS CLINCH IVY LEAGUE TITLE
MEDICAL MARIJUANA NEW HAVEN POLICE
M. LACROSSE
Finance Committee approves bill supported by Malloy; House to vote
COPS ARRAIGNED IN OFF-DUTY GUNPLAY INCIDENT
Yale topples Bryant in 2OT with last-second goal by Matt Gibson ’12
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Tenure system a boon for humanities BY ANTONIA WOODFORD STAFF REPORTER Five years after the University instituted a tenure-track system, professors and administrators said the perception that “nobody gets tenure at Yale” is fading. Under the tenure-track system adopted in 2007, tenure decisions are no longer dependent on departmental resources, and each junior faculty mem-
ber must be evaluated for tenure by their eighth year at Yale. Since the change, Yale College Dean Mary Miller said more faculty members — particularly in the humanities, which historically had low tenure rates at Yale — are rising through University’s ranks to receive tenure, and six recently tenured professors said morale among junior faculty in their departments has improved. At the most recent meeting
of the Board of Permanent Officers on March 29, five of seven professors awarded tenure were from humanities departments. “There was a perception in my department for many years that it was impossible to get tenure from the junior rank,” said Ian Quinn, a professor of music who was awarded tenure last month. “I believe it happened once in the last 40 years before me.” Before 2007, Yale was
extremely unusual in not having a defined tenure track, said Jon Butler, a professor of American studies and history and former dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, who cochaired the committee that drew up Yale’s new tenure policy. Rather than automatically considering professors for tenure after a certain period of time, Yale could only offer tenure when departments had a tenured slot
For thespians, Yale degree not enough While opportunities in undergraduate theater abound on campus, aspiring actors may find themselves underprepared relative to their peers in conservatories.
available. The University was also “completely abnormal” in that it would call a nationwide search to fill open tenured positions, to which junior faculty could apply, rather than assessing junior faculty’s scholarship independently, Butler said. Miller said the changes, which also made Yale more generous in SEE TENURE PAGE 4
Mr. Yale crowned
Champion. Kate Falkenstein
’12 placed as the top speaker at the American Parliamentary Debate Association’s championship tournament held at Wesleyan University this weekend.
Relay results. Friday’s Relay for Life saw a smaller turnout than last year’s. The event brought in over $51,000 for cancer research, while last year’s Relay for Life raised $85,000 for the cause. He’s got wings. Jack Hart ’12 won the honor of representing the United States in the Red Bull Paper Wings worldwide paper airplane contest. Hart won his spot in the distance category, constructing a paper airplane that travelled 45.11 meters. He’ll travel to the world championships in Salzburg, Austria, in May. Vandalism. Calhoun College
Dean Leslie Woodard’s apartment was vandalized on Sunday morning around 5 a.m., according to an email from Calhoun Master Amy Hungerford. An unknown culprit threw two bricks through the apartment’s windows from the walkway between Calhoun and Berkeley. No one was hurt, and the culprit has not been apprehended.
A winner. “The Island
President,” a documentary about the efforts of the president of the Maldives to save his low-lying island from rising sea levels, was named best feature film at the fourth annual Environmental Film Festival at Yale.
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In late January, Jamie Biondi ’12 starred in “Macbeth,” his senior project for the theater studies major. BY AKBAR AHMED STAFF REPORTER Last fall, the Theater Studies program underwent a thorough curriculum review in which every part of the program was “scrutinized and assessed,” said Toni Dorfman, director of undergraduate studies for the program.
UPCLOSE In doing so, the program reaffirmed what it sees as a defining characteristic of theater instruction at Yale. In Dorfman’s words: “This is not vocational training. We don’t see it that way.” Instead, the program will uphold
its view of theater “as a branch of the humanities and as a complex cultural practice [that] claims a rich history and literature and an equally rich repertoire of embodied knowledge and theory,” as the Blue Book states. Yale’s promise to students of a liberal arts education is very different from what they might receive at more career-focused conservatory programs. According to Sarah Lovely, director of college counseling at the Walnut Hill School for the Arts in Natick, Mass., a conservatory education provides a “very high level of training at least five days per week, with the option of acting or singing or dancing in a lot of performances in between.” The Yale program is a far cry from that practice-oriented structure.
Online courses for credit expand BY ANDREW GIAMBRONE STAFF REPORTER After a successful pilot program last summer, the University will expand the number of online courses offered for credit through Yale Summer Session this year. The University will offer nine Yale College courses online for credit — up from two last year — that will be open to both Yale students and those from beyond the Yale community at a cost of $3,150 each, the same as other Summer Session courses held on campus. Dean of Yale Summer Session William Whobrey said the online courses, which are still in an
experimental phase, “mimic the effects of a seminar” by allowing students and professors to interact via video chat and instant messaging. “This is an opportunity for Yale students to get credit towards their degrees even if they’re not in New Haven,” Whobrey said. “I’m sure there are students and faculty who prefer to be in the class and to see each other face-to-face, but this isn’t meant to replace that.” The nine online classes, which will be capped at 25 students each, represent eight different departments, includSEE ONLINE COURSES PAGE 4
Majoring in theater studies, students said, is not enough to learn the skills that are integral to a career in the field. “As far as getting the best training, you really need to participate in Theater Studies, but not just stay there. You absolutely need to do extracurricular theater,” said Timmia Hearn Feldman ’12, who will go into professional theater after she graduates this May. “It’s a combination. One without the other is useless.” For these students, preparing for a career in the theater while at Yale means navigating a complicated tangle of theater studies teaching and involvement in student-produced shows in their free time. SEE THEATER PAGE 6
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KEIL ’12 WINS MR. YALE Saybrugian Marty Keil ’12 won the title of Mr. Yale Sunday after an hour-long talent competition against members of all 12 residential colleges. Presenting his talent as “dating,” Keil won over the judges by reenacting a fake date that involved a prop master, strawberries and a Titanic painting scene.
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Redrawing the architecture major
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s members of the first class to complete the redesigned architecture major prepare for graduation this May, students within the program have noted an increasingly preprofessional feel. NATASHA THONDAVADI reports.
Three years ago, administrators at the School of Architecture turned back to the drawing board. Students and professors had raised concerns about the undergraduate architecture major’s sequence of courses, said Bimal Mendis ’98 ARC ’02, the major’s current director of undergraduate studies and an assistant dean at the Architecture
School. This May marks the graduation of the first class to have completed the restructured major, which includes a new prerequisite sequence and an updated history survey taught through the School of Architecture. SEE ARCHITECTURE PAGE 4
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few days ago, one of my campers visited me at school. He’ll be coming to Yale in the fall and was full of the joy I remember feeling the first time I stepped on the Yale campus after being accepted. We were drinking tea outside in the glorious sunshine and he asked me what appeared to be an innocuous question: “Are you going back to camp?” I paused, uncertain of how to respond. “No,” I said, “but I would like to.” It was a moment of cognitive dissonance for me. In my mind, summer means Seeds of Peace, the conflict resolution camp located by a lake in Maine where I’ve spent three of the last six summers. Summer means the large expanse of blue water that catches the early morning light and the stars after sunset, the creaky wooden cabins with the finicky plumbing and the high-polished dining hall where we do table cheers. Summer means falling asleep at night to the sound of gentle lake waves and waking up each morning to loon cries. These images hung before my eyes as I turned back to this camper, who loves Seeds of Peace as I and virtually everyone who have gone through the program or worked there do. Yet all of us have had to face a moment, either as a camper or counselor, when we realized that it was time for us to stop going back. I’m in the process of redefining what summer means to me. This year, it will mean putting on collared shirts instead of dirty T-shirts, working in an office instead of the great outdoors and cooking for myself in an airconditioned apartment. I’m not unhappy about any of these things — in fact, I’m profoundly excited about the work that I get to do this summer at an art museum in New York — but I also feel a sense of loss. Not going back signals the end of an era and the need to look towards a future in which I have to balance what I love with what pays the rent and is an appropriate next step on a career trajectory. Ambition, I told my camper, can be a mixed blessing: While it spurs me to reach for greater accomplishments, it makes me self-conscious. I don’t like admitting to myself or to others that the major reason I’m not returning to camp is that it’s time to add another line to my resume, to embrace adult work and
a d u l t responsibilities in spite of my love for the M a i n e woods. Most ZOE Yalies I MERCER- know are strugGOLDEN gling with Meditations s i m i lar questions of how we adjust to the high expectations for success that we impose on ourselves and have imposed on us with our desire to pursue passions. Grownups are saying two things at once: Follow what you love relentlessly, because otherwise life isn’t worth living, and make a comfortable life and living for yourself — even if it means letting go of earlier dreams. For some of us, the two mindsets will be possible to reconcile. But for many of us, there may be difficult choices ahead. Summers in college are some of the first of these decision points. Senior year and life after graduation will be full of them. If I am struggling with this cognitive dissonance now, how much worse will it be when I have to decide about graduate school (Ph.D. or MBA?), whether to have children (do I stay at home or keep working?) and when to retire (more financial stability or more time to spend with the family?). I’m looking at what I hope will be a long, happy life with a certain amount of dread for the choices that my peers and I will have to make. My camper listened thoughtfully as I spoke, but didn’t say much of anything. He’s not yet in college; these decisions aren’t yet very real for him. Compromise is only a peripheral part of his vocabulary, while it is becoming an essential part of mine. I feel grateful to have options, but at the same time, I am almost overwhelmed by these same options and the questions they pose. This, then, is what I said to my camper as we walked back through the Yale campus: Hold on to what you love for as long as possible. I smiled. I’m already deciding which weekend to visit. ZOE MERCER-GOLDEN is a junior in Davenport College. Contact her at zoe.mercer-golden@yale.edu .
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n our age of digital dependence, the Computer Science Department should be one of the most popular at Yale. From political revolutions fueled by social networking to indie bands raising funding on Kickstarter, computers and the Internet are transforming every aspect of how we live, work and play. Yalies of all stripes are clamoring to engage with these trends, but the Computer Science Department is dooming itself to irrelevance by refusing to provide the tools students need to be successful. Code is the lingua franca of the 21st century. Whether it’s putting together a website for an advocacy campaign, writing a script to analyze some economic data or creating an app to help kids learn math, programming fluency has become a required skill for anyone looking to have an impact on the world. The Yale student body understands this and desperately craves some structured way to learn these skills. Because the Computer Science Department
refuses to meet this demand, some Yalies took matters into their own hands and founded the enormously popular HackYale group. The organization recruits tech-savvy students to run semester-long classes to teach fellow students basic proficiency in scripting and Web technology. Last fall, HackYale taught two Web development classes to 60 students. They had to turn away over 500 other students who wanted to learn. This spring, they expanded to teach five classes but still had to turn away over 400 students. Yale administrators, take note: More than 10 percent of the undergraduate student body wanted to learn these skills so badly that they signed up to take an additional class above and beyond their regular schoolwork. In the words of one faculty member I spoke to, the Computer Science Department’s position is that it isn’t in the business of teaching these “trade school skills.” While I certainly agree that Yale computer science shouldn’t be trying to pump
out programmer worker bees, the department has a role to play in offering a few practical classes to give non-majors the programming proficiency they need to drive change in their world. The department’s decision has repercussions outside of the Yale bubble as well. By failing to provide practical programming classes, Yale is contributing to New Haven’s economic irrelevance. When startups can’t find people with even basic coding skills, they leave New Haven for the greener pastures of Boston and Silicon Valley. As former president of the Yale Entrepreneurial Society, I saw countless Yale student startups sputter and die without because they couldn’t find a technically proficient cofounder. Less than 10 percent of ventures had founders that could actually build a product. The good news is that there’s an easy first step that Yale computer science could take to start addressing this issue. It pains me to say it, but we could learn a thing or two from a certain insti-
tution in Cambridge. One thing that Harvard has absolutely gotten right is its introductory CS50 class that teaches students of all majors the practical scripting and Web programming skills they need to apply tech to their other interests. My sister — who chose Harvard over Yale partially because of classes like CS50 — started the semester knowing almost nothing about programming and finished with a job offer from a tech startup. She might not even end up being a computer science major, but the class gave her a solid set of skills that she’s already putting to work. It would be simple to create a class along the lines of CS50 here at Yale. By refusing to do so, Yale is doing a huge disservice to its students and leaving them at a significant disadvantage out in the real world. MAX UHLENHUTH is a senior in Timothy Dwight College. Contact him at max.uhlenhuth@yale.edu .
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Learn to be vulnerable
ast week, Zachary Brunt ’15, a kind, gifted and beloved student, died much too soon. At Thursday’s vigil, Zach’s father had a single request: “Please don’t let this happen again.” His request reminds us to think about the many people at Yale who are struggling now or will be in the future. Yale is a wonderful place, but it can be frustrating and isolating. Yalies tend to talk freely about achievement but remain silent about hardship. In this stoic culture, people easily slip through the cracks. We notice when it becomes a tragedy of the magnitude of last week’s, but there are people all over Yale who need some support, compassion and relief. You can’t provide this support only in the toughest moments. It’s when people are in trouble that they are least likely to feel comfortable speaking up. Openness, encouragement and understanding need to be cultivated long before hardship hits. During my most difficult semester, I dealt with a type of obsessive-compulsive disorder that nobody around me knew existed. As scary as that was, I was
privileged to have a few friends who possessed an extraordinary quality: They were comfortable being around pain without needing to resolve it. They weren’t looking to fix their friends’ problems, to move quickly past the difficulties to immediate positivity. They were just there, for as long as I needed them, without expecting change. Their simple presence was the best gift they had to offer, and they offered it freely. These people were also extraordinary because of their ability to be vulnerable. This is where true support starts. By being open about your own difficulties, you’ll create an environment where your friends aren’t scared to talk about theirs. As it stands, Yalies’ tendency to downplay hardship fuels a cycle of dishonesty in which people refrain from talking about what’s really going on in their lives for fear of judgment. But if we don’t talk about prevalent insecurities, how will people ever feel safe enough to discuss deeper issues? Who will they turn to when those problems grow, when they start getting depressed or when their anx-
iety becomes overwhelming? And if they can’t speak when an issue begins, why will they suddenly feel liberated once it starts to get out of hand? This is a difficult cycle to end. Change will require both comfort with vulnerability and willingness to be nonjudgmental. Both depend on compassion and kindness — towards others and yourself. Until you learn to give yourself a break, it’s hard to truly put yourself out there, and it’s hard to be there for others when they need you. Remember that building real compassion means acquiring an ability to separate people’s worth from their grades, work habits and standing in extracurricular organizations. People matter — you matter — at a more basic level. In the pursuit of perfection, it’s easy to forget what real worth looks like. And it becomes difficult to relinquish judgment in favor of understanding and humility. One of the other unfortunate consequences of a perfectionist culture is that people in trouble often try to mask the extent of their suffering or think they somehow deserve it. But for those who are struggling, it is real, it
is hard and you don’t deserve it. Period. It can be difficult to let people into your life when you’re feeling so off, but take it one step at a time. Begin with even a single line: “I’m struggling right now, but I’m not ready to talk about it.” Gradually reach out to friends and family. Make an appointment with a therapist. No matter what the extent of your difficulties, if you’re unhappy, get the help you deserve. I didn’t know Zach, but by all accounts he was the type of person who took care of the people in his life. Honor his memory by doing the same for the people in yours. Be kind to yourself and others. Ease up on judgments. Talk about your faults and fears once in a while. Do whatever you can to make the people around you feel at ease. Start small. Create the type of culture in your own life that you want to see across this campus. But start immediately. People close to you might need you more than they’re able to admit right now. KATE MCDERMOTT is a 2011 graduate of Calhoun College .
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“When I was a kid I inhaled frequently. That was the point.” BARACK OBAMA PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
Committee OKs medical marijuana
MONDAY, APRIL 23 11:00 AM “Empire and Emancipation: Catholic Britons in the 19th Century.” This talk, by Beinecke visiting fellow S. Karly Kehoe, considers the role played by the religious periphery in the development of modern Britain by focusing on the extent to which the parliamentary union with Ireland in 1801 transformed Britain’s civil and religious landscape. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (121 Wall St.), room 38. 11:45 AM “Microfranchising: Delivering Life Changing Products to the Doorsteps of the Poor.” The Net Impact Club and the School of Management are hosting Chuck Slaughter ’85 SOM ’90, the founder and CEO of Living Goods. Open to students only. Admission is free, but registration on the Yale School of Management website. Yale School of Management (60 Sachem St.), room A51
CORRECTION FRIDAY, APRIL 20
The article “Citizens testify against DeStefano budget” misrepresented the conversion of the mill rate to property taxes. A mill rate of 1 means $1 in property taxes per $1,000 in the property’s assessed value, meaning that New Haven’s base property tax rate is 4.9 percent. JEFF CHIU/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Coinciding with Friday’s 4/20 holiday celebrating marijuana, the state legislature’s Finance Committee passed a bill permitting medical marijuana.
Corporation discusses budget, student life BY TAPLEY STEPHENSON STAFF REPORTER The Yale Corporation convened over the weekend to discuss the University’s budget for the 2012-’13 academic year and student life policy changes made this year. University President Richard Levin said Sunday that the Corporation met with representatives of Yale Health, Undergraduate Career Services and the college masters to discuss student life. The Corporation also addressed Yale’s budget for the coming academic year, which Levin said is almost finalized, and preliminary plans for resuming work on major projects that were stalled after the onset of the recession in 2008. University Vice President and Secretary Linda Lorimer said in a Sunday email the topic of mental health services was placed on the agenda last summer. The death last Wednesday of Zachary Brunt ’15 — ruled a suicide by the state medical examiner’s office — was also discussed at the meeting, she added. “Of course, the recent tragedy was referenced,” Lorimer said. “The members of the Corporation expressed their condolences to Zachary’s family.” As part of the weekend’s meeting, Corporation fellows attended a panel featuring Yale College Dean Mary Miller and three college masters, and then had breakfast with all 12 masters. Levin said the conversation over breakfast was “very general,” focusing on the demographics of the student body and “the special needs students have today.” The Corporation’s Institutional Policy Committee, which considers the University’s administrative policies, met with Jane Edwards, dean of international and professional experience and associate dean of Yale College, to review recent changes to Yale’s career services and with representa-
tives of mental health counseling at Yale. “There was recently an external review of the mental health services, which was very positive,” Levin said. “And there’s been a number of initiatives to improve career services and broaden the menu of job opportunities available to undergraduates, beyond the typical financial or consulting jobs.” Yale College Council President Brandon Levin ’13 said the Corporation also met with the YCC for roughly one hour on Friday to discuss the council’s annual report, which reviewed initiatives such as gender-neutral housing and the mental health fellows program. As for capital construction, Levin said administrators are “beginning to analyze” when work can resume on the projects. He added that it is still too soon to evaluate the University’s capacity to finance these projects, though they were also addressed at the Corporation’s April meeting last year. “It was a very preliminary discussion,” Levin said. “Most likely it will lead a more detailed discussion over the summer and hopefully some decisions in the fall, but we’re not there yet in terms of completing work.” Seven major capital projects were postponed when the recession hit, and five of these projects remain stalled: the new residential colleges, the renovation of Hendrie Hall, the new biology building, the new School of Drama building, and additions to Kline and Sterling Chemistry Laboratories. The University already resumed work on the new School of Management building and the Yale University Art Gallery renovations after raising sufficient funds to continue the projects. The Yale Corporation meets five times per year and is comprised of 19 fellows. Contact TAPLEY STEPHENSON at preston.stephenson@yale.edu .
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BY JAMES LU STAFF REPORTER On a day celebrating cannabis culture — 4/20, or April 20 — a bill permitting the medical use of marijuana sailed through the state legislature’s Finance Committee. The committee voted 36 to 15 in favor of the bill, which would permit patients with certain debilitating illnesses to obtain marijuana from a licensed pharmacist to use for medical purposes. The bill now heads to the state House of Representatives for debate. State Sen. Toni Boucher, Republican of Wilton, one of the bill’s most vocal opponents, spoke for about an hour about the financial pitfalls of medical marijuana, according to the Associated Press. “We are contemplating making a very costly public policy change, which will put the state of Connecticut also in direct conflict with the United States Department of Justice as there appears to [be] growing resis-
tance to these bills from state to state,” she said.
We are contemplating making a very costly public policy change, which will put the state of Connecticut also in direct conflict with the United States Department of Justice. TONI BOUCHER State Senator (R-Wilton) Boucher proposed several amendments to the bill, including one that would limit its application to those with terminal illness. Other amendments she proposed would have increased fees on marijuana producers to help pay for additional
enforcement measures and antiaddiction programs. None of her amendments passed. Under the bill, a new system will license medical marijuana producers and register qualified patients, which are limited to those suffering from certain specified illnesses such as AIDS or cancer. Doctors would then be permitted to prescribe marijuana to patients, who can possess a one-month supply of the drug. The bill has widespread support among residents of Connecticut, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released March 21. Sixty-eight percent of the poll’s 1,622 respondents said they support allowing patients with a chronic illness to obtain small amounts of marijuana with a prescription, while only 27 percent said they oppose medical marijuana. That same day, the legislature’s Judiciary Committee approved the bill allowing medical marijuana after hearing testimony from Connecticut residents who said they would be positively impacted by the leg-
islation. According to committee testimony, the drug is one of the only sources of relief from pain and other side effects of certain kinds of treatments. The legislature has attempted to pass similar bills in the past. In 2007, lawmakers passed a medical marijuana bill, but it was vetoed by then-Gov. Jodi Rell, a Republican. Gov. Dannel Malloy, who took office in 2011, has indicated his support for medical marijuana and said he would sign the bill if the legislature passes it. Last June, the legislature passed a bill that decriminalized the possession of less than half an ounce of nonmedical marijuana in a move that Malloy said reflected the reality that the previous law, under which first-time offenders faced up to a year in prison and fines up to $1,000, did “more harm than good.” Sixteen states have legalized medical marijuana. Contact JAMES LU at james.q.lu@yale.edu .
Pre-MBA program broadens membership
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The School of Management’s pre-MBA program will expand with 20 new slots reserved for students from schools in its new international network. BY DANIEL SISGOREO STAFF REPORTER With the School of Management’s new international network set to launch Thursday, SOM is creating 20 new spots in its preMBA summer program for undergraduates from member schools. The two-week summer program, which launched in 2007 and is designed to introduce college students and recent graduates from minority groups to the basics of business education, will admit roughly 20 international students from business schools in SOM’s new global network this year. SOM Dean Edward Snyder said international students from the network — a partnership of roughly 20 international business schools that will collaborate on a range of projects — will bring a global perspective to discussions of business issues, and also add a “completely different dimension” to the partnership by including not just MBA students but also undergraduates affiliated with member institutions. “Having participants from the network schools could position us to better explore issues of diversity and develop a better under-
standing of business issues,” Snyder said. Heidi Brooks, an SOM lecturer and faculty director for the pre-MBA program, said expanding enrollment from an average of 40 American students to include 20 international students will increase the diversity of the program. She said working with students from institutions abroad will expose the program’s typical American participants to international perspectives on business. Sergio Rosas, a former Stanford University undergraduate who participated in the program last summer and is also helping establish a new alumni association for graduates of the program, said building relationships with international students will be beneficial for the program’s participants, given that business is becoming increasingly internationalized. Brenda Castillo, a University of California, Berkeley, graduate who enrolled in the program in 2010 and is also involved in creating the alumni association, said meeting international students might help the other students adapt to future career changes, as many who pursue business need to travel and move abroad.
As the program prepares to increase enrollment by about 50 percent, organizers said they will work to ensure that all students become acquainted with each other during their two weeks in June.
Having participants from the network schools could position us to better explore issues of diversity and develop a better understanding of business issues. EDWARD SNYDER Dean, Yale School of Management Jim Baron, an SOM professor who helped run the pre-MBA program in previous years, said the program will try to create a “broad climate” that accommodates all students. “In an intense program where people are thrown together, there
are going to be cliques that form,” he said. “I think that the best you can do is to try to identify themes that are of broad interest and incentives for people to want to get to know as many people as possible.” Brooks said program organizers have not determined methods for shaping this summer’s group dynamic. She added that the new student composition of the program will be similar in size to that of an SOM “cohort” — a group of first-year students who take core classes together. As a result, she said teaching the pre-MBA group of students will “feel very familiar” to faculty involved in the program. Former participants said they did not think the program’s growth in size from roughly 40 students would impact students’ experiences this summer. “When you’re expanding a program, the curriculum is bound to change,” Rosas said. “But Yale does a great job of paying very particular attention to our needs and understanding our needs.” The 2012 program will take place from June 10 to June 23. Contact DANIEL SISGOREO at daniel.sisgoreo@yale.edu .
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FROM THE FRONT Profs see benefits from tenure-track system TENURE FROM PAGE 1 granting junior faculty leave time, especially benefited humanities professors. Unlike in the sciences, where it is common to take a postdoctoral position between getting a Ph.D. and becoming an assistant professor, junior faculty in the humanities who came to Yale straight out of graduate school often found it difficult to work their way to tenure at the University, she said. Of 22 professors who have been promoted internally and awarded tenure since December 2010, 11 have been from science and engineering departments, and 10 have been in the humanities, according to a list Miller provided the News. History professor Beverly Gage ’94, who came to Yale in 2004 and was awarded tenure last month, called the generous leave policies “really critical” in allowing junior faculty to complete the type of scholarship expected of them before they are evaluated for tenure. Recently tenured professors said junior faculty are now more optimistic about their ability to achieve tenure if they maintain a high level of scholarship. Jing Yuen Tsu, a professor of East Asian languages and literatures who received tenure last spring, said “the morale around junior faculty was quite low” when she came to Yale in 2006. Back then, junior faculty members did not make long-term plans to stay at Yale, she said, adding that the new tenure system has changed this attitude and made the University more appealing for incoming faculty. English professor Stefanie Markovits ’94 GRD ’01, who was awarded tenure last spring, said she has noticed fewer junior faculty leaving her department before the time when they could be considered for tenure. She said last year was the first year since she began teaching in 2001 that no junior faculty members left the English Department, adding that this is indicative of “a change in the culture of the department.” “I have the feeling my junior [faculty] colleagues are now much more hopeful about the prospect of getting tenure at Yale,” Markovits
said. “They don’t assume they’ll jump somewhere else the moment they get the first good chance.” Mentoring for junior faculty members has also improved, professors interviewed said, and some observed that there is less of a divide between junior and senior faculty members in their departments. Quinn said there used to be a “vast gulf” between junior and senior faculty in his department, “largely because it was seen as next to impossible to move from one population to the other.” He said he now feels junior faculty members in his department are considered “full members” of the department and have the potential to move up the faculty ranks. Quinn added that a report released by the Provost’s Office this March that reviewed the faculty budget and accounting system also reflects a change in how junior faculty are perceived, since it proposed a new faculty accounting system in which senior faculty members are no longer counted as the equivalent of two junior faculty members. The report, produced by a committee chaired by economics professor William Nordhaus ’63, also addressed the concern that Yale might have too many tenured professors and not enough fresh talent at the junior level if tenure rates continue to rise. The report recommends that the establishment of tenure ratio guidelines for each department and having departments conduct searches at the junior faculty level when their tenure ratio exceeds their guideline. Administrators are currently reviewing the report and have yet to make any policy changes. Cases for promotion to tenure are considered by the Board of Permanent Officers after being approved by a professor’s department and a Tenure Appointments and Promotions Committee for each academic division. The Board of Permanent Officers is a committee of all tenured, full professors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Contact ANTONIA WOODFORD at antonia.woodford@yale.edu .
“A man of 80 has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.” LORD BYRON POET
Distance learning grows ONLINE COURSES FROM PAGE 1 ing English, Music, Psychology and Economics. Lucas Swineford, director of digital media and dissemination at the Yale Broadcast & Media Center, which helped design the interface for the courses, said the online courses afford students the ability to take classes while pursuing other activities outside of New Haven, such as internships, research projects or community service. Whobrey said the expansion was partly motivated by similar projects at other universities: Over the past several years, Harvard, Stanford and Columbia all began offering online courses for credit. The total number of online courses for credit will likely not expand beyond 20 per summer, Whobrey said, adding that such courses could potentially become available to Yale students during the academic year. Three of the nine courses have versions of the classes available on Open Yale Courses — which currently has lectures for 42 courses online for free — so students will watch the prerecorded lectures before attending the online discussion sessions, Swineford said, and four other online courses this summer will incorporate online lectures posted exclusively for the summer program. Four professors who will teach online courses this summer said they are excited about the program’s “interactive” nature. Even though they will not meet those students in person, they added that the small classes will likely provide better settings than large lecture halls to form personal relationships with students.
Music professor Craig Wright, who taught “Brains of Genius: Mozart and Friends” online in last year’s pilot program, said he received “uniformly positive reviews” from students. Wright, who will offer the online class “Listening to Classical Music” this summer, said he found that meeting only through online forums did not detract from the educational experience. Political Science professor Ellen Lust, who will teach her “Introduction to Middle East Politics” course online for a second time this summer, said she her online course was more “diverse” than her typical Summer Session course in New Haven, with students participating from around the world. She added that the online discussion threads allowed her to keep a “track record” of her students’ progress, which does not exist in in-class discussion groups. “I am convinced that students can get as much out of online courses as they can from those in the classroom,” Lust said. “In fact, if there is one message to be sent to students considering an online course, it is that the course is not ‘easy.’ Online courses require as much, if not more, time and dedication as in-class courses do.” For Laurie Santos, a psychology professor who will be offering her “Sex, Evolution, and Human Nature” course online this summer, the new medium will be “a unique way to teach [a] big lecture course in a format that allows [her] to get to know [her] students a bit more personally.” Frequent small discussions between students and professors provided in the online format will likely enhance the learn-
ing experience, echoed Kristina Olson, a psychology professor who is offering an “Introduction to Psychology” course this summer. Still, she said the online forum limits the scope of possible demonstrations, which she said she often uses for students in her normal lectures. The online Summer Session options uses the Pearson eCollege Learning Management System, a standard platform used for online education. Contact ANDREW GIAMBRONE at andrew.giambrone@yale.edu .
SUMMER ONLINE COURSES Milton, John Rogers Jazz and Race in America, Tom Duffy Introduction to Psychology, Kristina Olson Sex, Evolution and Human Nature, Laurie Santos The Welfare Economics of Public Policy, Don Brown Introduction to Green Energy, Yehia Khalil Listening to Classical Music, Craig Wright Moralities of Everyday Life, Paul Bloom Introduction to Middle East Politics, Ellen Lust
Redesigned architecture major sees fewer students ARCHITECTURE FROM PAGE 1 While the standard five-year undergraduate program offered at other universities enables students to obtain the license for professional practice without any further training, architecture major Kevin Adkisson ’12 said, Yale undergraduates do not graduate with enough skills to compete with those students. Instead, students at Yale are meant to benefit from a liberal arts education and only begin taking prerequisite architecture courses in their sophomore year, Mendis said, adding that only about half of the students in the program are planning to become professional architects. Still, Yale’s new undergraduate architecture program treads a fine line between Yale College’s liberal arts philosophy and the preprofessional culture of its home in the Architecture School’s Rudolph Hall. Due to the major’s rigorous coursework early on and focus on production, six undergraduate students in the major interviewed said that they feel the program is more “preprofessional” than other majors at Yale. “I think compared to the general Yale major, it’s more geared toward going to professional school,” Sydney Shea ’14 said. “But I personally don’t want to be an architect. I’m really interested in it, but I don’t enjoy it enough to do it as a career.”
A NARROWER FOCUS
Mendis said that one of the most significant changes the program made was to move “The Analytic Model,” a course in which students study one canonical building in depth and use it to practice architectural production techniques, to the sophomore year. The early placement of the course, which is now a prerequisite to the major, has discouraged students uninterested in learning the techniques of design from applying to the program. “You realize whether or not architecture is right for you as a student,” Scott Simpson ’13 said of the course’s role in students’ decisions to apply. “It’s a really honest perspective on what the major is really like.” Mendis said that since the course — known for its emphasis on drawing and modeling
skills — was moved to sophomore year, the program has grown smaller. Prior to the class of 2012, the first class to study in the revamped major, between 20 and 25 students entered the architecture program each year. Now, he said, that number has been reduced to between 16 and 19. Although over 50 students enrolled in the fall 2011 sophomore prerequisite “Introduction to Architecture,” a survey course that involves basic drawing assignments, only about 22 decided to take “The Analytic Model,” which requires even more drawing technique, current students in the major said. Eighteen students applied to the major this April, yet two of five sophomore applicants interviewed saying they are not sure they will continue with the major next year. Once accepted into the major, students choose between three tracks — architecture and design; history, theory and criticism; and architecture and urban studies. While the total number of students in the major has decreased, a larger percentage of those enrolled have opted for the design track, Mendis said. Alyssa Navarro ’14 said that she began the sophomore sequence at the beginning of the year, intending to major in architecture after learning about the history of architecture in her history of art courses. But though Navarro wanted to pursue the history, theory and criticism track, she felt intimidated by the production requirements of the sophomore sequence. Now, Navarro said she plans to study of the history of architecture through the Department of the History of Art, adding that neither option is a perfect fit for her interests because the history of art major does not offer as many courses that focus on architecture as she would like. “I’m not a drawer, so I was already a step behind,” Navarro said. Robert A.M. Stern, dean of the School of Architecture, said the undergraduate architecture program should emphasize the production elements of architecture. It is possible to study other aspects of the discipline through a variety of majors, he added, noting that many stu-
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A restructuring of the architecture major three years ago emphasized design techniques within the undergraduate program. dents interested in urban studies but not architectural design apply to the ethics, politics and economics major. “An architecture program has to be about design,” Stern said.
NEW WAY OF THINKING
While the program does place a significant amount of emphasis on design, Simpson, a junior in the major, said that he does not believe undergraduate architecture students feel forced into a professional track. Both students and faculty members said that the critical thinking skills developed in a design education are useful in careers other than architecture. Cynthia Deng ’14 said that while she is devoted to learning about architecture through the
lens of production, she does not plan on entering the field.
[The architecture major] teaches you a different way of thinking and gives you a set of skills you couldn’t get anywhere else. ALYSSA NAVARRO ‘14 “I think it teaches you a different way of thinking and gives you a set of skills you couldn’t get anywhere else,” Deng said. “Learning to think about buildings from so many different
angles teaches you how to think critically.” Mendis emphasized that students still take many classes in Yale College other than the 15 architecture courses required for the major, giving them a true liberal arts experience. In comparison to five-year u n d e rg ra d u a te p rog ra m s, Adkisson said, the Yale architecture program still adopts a much broader definition of architecture. Since so many courses from a other disciplines count towards the major’s requirements, he added, the program adopts a liberal arts approach within the major itself. Although the program’s recent focus on design has made visualization a larger part of majoring in architecture, Men-
dis added that creating drawings and models is as much a form of expression as practice for a professional education. “Here, you’re articulating your ideas visually, and you’re analyzing things visually. The studio environment is where that takes place,” he said. “But that’s no different from a humanities major expressing their ideas in writing.” Adkisson said that if he decides not to become an architect, he may never make a model again, but he will still graduate with an enhanced ability to think creatively that he can carry into other areas of his life. Contact NATASHA THONDAVADI at natasha.thondavadi@yale.edu .
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More than 800 hospitals associated with the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacists reported drug shortages.
NHPD officers arraigned in gunplay incident BY JAMES LU STAFF REPORTER Two New Haven Police Department officers charged with the unlawful discharge of a firearm, reckless endangerment and interfering with an officer were arraigned in the New Haven Superior Court Friday morning. Officers Charles Kim and Lawrence Burns, who were both put on administrative leave and arrested for their alleged involvement in an off-duty shooting incident at the State Street bar Christopher Martin’s on April 1, made their first court appearance but did not enter a plea on Friday. Along with officer Krzysztof Ruszczyk, who is charged with interfering with a police officer but did not appear in court Friday, they are due to appear in court next on May 11. “[The case has] been difficult for him, his family, and I’m sure all of the other officers,” said Michael Georgetti, Burns’ Hartford-based attorney. In addition to unlawfully firing a city-issued gun, Burns is charged with lying to a superior about his involvement in the incident, according to a warrant affidavit submitted to the court. Sgt. Steven Teague told Burns to return to State Street to “talk about what happened” in a phone call about 15 minutes after the initial gunfire, but
Burns said, “I wasn’t at State Street, Sarge,” and denied involvement several more times, according to the affidavit. Georgetti told the New Haven Independent his client would plead not guilty “at the appropriate time,” leaving open the possibility of a plea deal. Both Georgetti and Rosemarie Paine, Kim’s New Haven-based attorney, noted their clients’ past records with the NHPD.
[This case has] been difficult for [NHPD Officer Lawrence Burns], his family, and I’m sure all the other officers. MICHAEL GEORGETTI Attorney for NHPD Officer Lawrence Burns “[Kim] has lived a life of public service — first in the U.S. Marine Corps, and then as a public servant,” Paine told the Independent. Ruszczyk, Kim and Burns all graduated from the police academy’s 2008 class and have served nearly four years with the NHPD. JACOB GEIGER/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Contact JAMES LU at james.q.lu@yale.edu .
The New Haven Police Department has put two officers on administrative leave for their alleged involvement in an off-duty shooting.
Hospitals suffer from drug shortages
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Connecticut hospitals are among those feeling the pinch of a national drug shortage. BY HOON PYO JEON STAFF REPORTER Though it is faring better than most other states, Connecticut has not escaped the nationwide drug shortage. Connecticut hospitals are not experiencing severe shortages that risk patients’ immediate treatments, according to pharmacy directors from Hartford Hospital and Saint Raphael’s Hospital in New Haven. But those two hospitals have been forced to ration certain drugs because of the shortage, they said, adding that the government needs to rectify the shortage by restructuring incentive mechanisms for pharmaceutical companies and by legislating regulations that enforce improved communications between hospitals and drug manufacturers. “Drug shortages are inherent in the drug delivery system,” said Janet Kozakiewicz, pharmacy director at Saint Raphael’s. “But unfortunately, the numbers per year have increased to unprecedented levels.” That drug shortages persist across the state does not necessarily mean that patients are not receiving the medications they need, because of hospitals’ rationing strategies. According to Kozakiewicz, Saint Raphael’s holds weekly meetings to review stock levels and evaluate reports from various health organizations, including the FDA. The hospital also sends out weekly updates to alert patients if a medication is in short supply and notify them of possible alternatives. “Selecting the right alternatives is the most common way of managing drug shortage,” said Mike Rubino, pharmacy director at Hartford Hospital. “Of course it’s not ideal, but it will be much
better than giving nothing to the patients who can do just fine with the alternatives.” Rubino added that economics is the leading cause of the drug shortage. Since pharmaceutical companies can reap bigger profit margins with non-generic drugs, he said, there are few incentives for the companies to keep producing generic drugs. Because of this, many companies have discontinued the production of generic drugs, even though demand remains high, Rubino said. At the same time, he added, there has been an unanticipated surge in demand for drugs, which caused the gap between supply and demand to widen dramatically in 2006-’07.
Unfortunately, the [drug shortage] numbers have increased to unprecedented levels . JANET KOZAKIEWICZ Pharmacy director, St. Raphael’s Hospital Recent raw material shortages have also resulted in lower production rates, Kozakiewicz said. Although sudden disruptions in raw material supplies would not be a problem if pharmaceutical companies reported to the FDA about the quantity they will be able to produce, there are frequent miscommunications between companies and the FDA. “The law states that if a company is the only supplier of a drug, it legally must notify the FDA six months before it anticipates a shortage of the medication,” Kozakiewicz said. “Since there are no consequences, this oftentimes does not happen in a
timely manner, if at all.” Additionally, concerns regarding the quality of drugs produced has prompted the FDA to toughen its regulatory practices, delaying or stopping pharmaceutical companies’ production if they fall short of the FDA’s standards. According to the FDA’s website, sterile injectable drugs — which are particularly dangerous if not properly manufactured — make up roughly 80 percent of the drugs affected by the shortage. “There have been a lot of criticisms of FDA that they are not doing their job thoroughly over the past five, six years,” Rubino said. “So the FDA hired more people, checked more companies and found errors, contaminations and frauds. Then the FDA told the companies to stop producing and they’re now really enforcing it.” Rubino added that the government must incentivize production of low-profit generic drugs by giving out subsidies to pharmaceutical companies. He added that he supports bills currently in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate that would penalize companies that do not notify the FDA of upcoming drug shortages. “Drug shortage is actually costing us quite a sum of money,” Rubino said. “An estimate of the cost of shortage is roughly 1 percent of our [drug] budget, which is $25 million. Drug prices keep rising, and we need to put more work into rationing our stockpiles and finding the right substitutes for our patients.” Currently, there are more than 200 drugs on the Food and Drug Administration’s list of drug shortages. In 2010, there were 178 drug shortages reported to the FDA, 132 of which involved sterile injectable drugs. Contact HOON PYO JEON at hoonpyo.jeon@yale.edu .
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FROM THE FRONT
“When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God’s gift to the theater.” MORGAN FREEMAN AMERICAN ACTOR
After Yale, actors compete with conservatory alums THEATER FROM PAGE 1 Olivia Scicolone ’14, a theater studies major who starred in “Sweeney Todd,” last fall’s mainstage production for the Yale Dramatic Association, said she plans to pursue a career in the theater. For her, as for other majors in the program, having to seek out opportunities in the field after graduation seems daunting. “I worry about post-graduation,” Scicolone said. And not all alumni can assuage her fears. A number of graduates said they found the preparation provided by the Theater Studies program and Yale-funded student productions did not ready them for the challenges of the field. “My main complaint is that it doesn’t prepare you for the real world,” said Allison Goldberg ’06, who now runs a production company in New York. “It’s a very theoretical education that talks a lot about art, but not as much about marketing yourself as a performer… the program is not about the business side, it’s about making art, which is lovely, but doesn’t really prepare you.”
NOT A CONSERVATORY
Irene Casey ’14, the president of the Yale Drama Coalition and a theater studies major, said she believes the Theater Studies program was upfront about its focus when she considered Yale during her college selection process. “The strength of the program is on the academic side, and they make it clear,” Casey said. “It must have been said to me 10,000 times.” Dorfman said the program is about the study of theater as a branch of the humanities, one that suggests broader lenses through which to approach human civilization. “Theater is not just about the theater. We don’t want to ‘theater everything down,’ because what theater is about in distillation is what it is to be human,” she said, citing studies in literature, art, history and the physical sciences as key to a student’s understanding of what theater can bring to the world. The structure of the theater studies curriculum reflects a holistic approach grounded in a liberal arts education: all theater studies majors must enroll in a year-long survey on the history of drama and the range of aesthetic theories. Following this prerequisite, students are required to enroll in at least four more courses in dramatic history or literature, resulting in a split of six courses in theory and six courses in practice
You can’t practice the practice without knowing the theory. You can’t understand why it‘s important to do theater and why we feel that theater is a jewel in the crown of civilized human beings. TONI DORFMAN, DIRECTOR OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES, THEATER STUDIES PROGRAM
that add up to the 12-credit major, Dorfman said. David DeRose, who served as director of undergraduate studies for the Theater Studies program from 1985 to 1993, said he is not familiar with the program’s operation today, but expressed ideals similar to Dorfman’s. “My vision of the program was always that we were exposing students to the many possibilities of the theater as a means of artistic and personal expression,” DeRose said. “I refused to see the major as a ‘training program’ in any specific discipline of theater — either acting, directing, what have you.” Several students interviewed said they believe the program’s academic focus has definite merit, although it does not focus as heavily as conservatories on practical work. “[The prerequisite] Theater Studies 110 is kind of a pain, but I needed it,” said theater studies major Mary Bolt ’14, who acted in last weekend’s “Glass Act” and will perform in the Dramat’s 2012 Commencement musical, “Hair.” Bolt chose to attend Yale instead of the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, a leading conservatory, because, she said, she “couldn’t really pass Yale up.” Because she attended a public high school and not a specialized arts school, Bolt said she did not have experience reading plays rapidly or recognizing different periods in the development of theater, as students who attended artsoriented high schools might. “I know as I approach theater today that having a solid understanding of history enriches my understanding of how I can create theater,” Scicolone said. “With [Theater Studies 110], I wasn’t feeling it; I had a chip on my shoulder. But then I realized how beneficial a class like this can be: it is very, very helpful to have a knowledge of theory and history and that kind of stuff, and that’s lacking in programs where studies [are] secondary to vocational training.” Theater studies professor Deb Margolin, an OBIE award-winning playwright, said she “feels very passionate” about the way theater is approached in the classroom at Yale. “The informed actor, the experienced actor, is the talented actor,” Margolin said, adding that she distrusts actors without defining real-life experiences outside theatrical training. Margolin said her experiences teaching at conservatories left her disillusioned about the environment of such programs, questioning whether they are conducive to
It’s really about your work, what you bring. In the theater, people don’t look at your degree or your pedigree. People look at your humanness. DEB MARGOLIN, PROFESSOR, THEATER STUDIES PROGRAM
producing a broad-minded student. “You may be able to sing ‘Oklahoma’ in pitch or something, but if you cannot create an eloquent English sentence, that is a major drawback,” Margolin said. Lisa Siciliano ’05, who currently works as an education manager for the Emerald City Theatre Company in Chicago, said she counts Dorfman and Margolin among her mentors to this day, and credits them with shaping her approach to theater. “They taught me that the love of the theater is not just being a star on Broadway,” Siciliano said.
ENTERING THE REAL WORLD
But Siciliano said that once she entered the professional world, she found her Yale preparation lacking. “In terms of learning how to get work, I was clueless,” she said. “I was asking, ‘If I get a headshot, what do I do with it?’ I didn’t know how to attach a headshot to a resume.” Theater studies major Scicolone, who chose Yale over the theater conservatory program at Carnegie Mellon University and has close friends at other conservatory programs, said she believes Yale theater students do not have the sort of vocational skills in their repertoire that their competitors from other educational backgrounds may have. She added that she became increasingly concerned about that deficiency last year, after speaking with a professional actor from New York who came to New Haven to talk about the musical theater field. “She expressed concern about how theater studies students here perceived their abilities,” Scicolone said, adding that the speaker said Yale students are not aware that their skill sets may prove lacking in the real world. Hearn Feldman said she believes “a community of congratulation” in the undergraduate theater scene causes some in the Yale theater community to stop being critical and pushing themselves to work harder. “There’s the ability to think you’re really good as a Yale undergrad,” she said. “If you come into Yale as a pretty talented actor, you can get snapped up by a show, get cast again and again and graduate thinking you’re the best — and not be.” According to Allison Goldberg ’06, co-artistic director of Lively Productions in New York, one of the skills Yalies may lack is a certain savoir-faire when entering cities with large theater scenes
It’s almost too easy to put up a production, where I feel like instead of going through multiple phases of “I need to revise this because it’s not exactly what how I want to it to be,” it’s about, “we’ve got the fund, we’re putting it up in a couple of weeks and then we’re moving on to our next project.” MARY BOLT ’14, STUDENT ACTRESS
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With funds from a Calhoun College Creative and Performing Arts award, a group of students staged a production of “Cabaret” in the first week of April. such as New York. “I really recall feeling, when I was new to the city, that NYU students knew what was up, because they were taught about the business and about headshots, which photographers to go to and who’s trying to rip you off,” said Goldberg, who originally moved to the city to pursue acting. Goldberg said that she chose to enroll at Yale because she sought a university with strength in both theater training and academics as a whole. But this education was something of a disappointment once she graduated, she said. Dorfman said she believes students will have time to receive the skills a conservatory can provide after they receive a thorough liberal arts education. DeRose agreed, referring to an instance from his time at Yale when Earle Gister, former chair of the acting program at the School of Drama, warned theater studies majors against specializing too early. “Both Gister and Judith Malina (the artistic director of the legendary Living Theatre) spoke to the undergrads and strongly, strongly urged our students to get a good liberal arts education, spend a few years working in the theater after graduation, and then, once they were sure this was what they absolutely had to do with their lives, go back and get the advanced training,” DeRose wrote in an email to the News. For Kate Pitt ’12, a former president of the Yale Drama Coalition, the fact that a Yale degree offers her options if she chooses not do theater is a key benefit of the program here. But for those completely certain that they want to go into theater after graduating, the opportunities they receive at the undergraduate level are critical. And time may be of the essence. “Youth sells,” Scicolone said. “And if you’re graduating [from graduate school] at 26, you lose some of the prime years of your life as far as if you want to ‘make it.’” One benefit of a conservatory program that Yale theater students do not receive is a showcase in which students travel to New York or Los Angeles to perform before and network with agents and casting directors, said Michael Knowles ’12. This lack of exposure to real-world players, who may sign students to their agencies on the spot, has been a sticking point in the Yale theater community for years, Knowles added. Knowles, who plans to be an actor, said he majored in Italian literature and history rather than theater studies because Yale provides “endless theater opportunities outside of the [theater] program.” At the same time, he added, his liberal arts education is different from the conservatory act-
ing training he received during his senior year of high school at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York, which he said he found “very limiting.” Still, Knowles noted that “the top agents, if they are hiring in this economy, are going to be seeing the CMU, Juilliard and NYU showcases.” Jamie Biondi ’12, a theater studies and English double major who plans to go into publishing, said Yale’s theater preparation often ends up producing smart actors as opposed to “good” ones. “The program is like ‘Do your theory credits and do your practice credits,’” Biondi added. “There isn’t that step in between that takes you from knowing what exactly Shakespeare means in that speech to translating that into your body.” Such differences in training may affect Yale graduates competing with conservatory alumni for scarce jobs in the field. Lovely, the college counselor at Walnut Hill School for the Arts, said the students she advises generally believe that training at liberal arts schools is not “as highcaliber as at a conservatory.” She added that while she works to combat this misconception, it is a consequence of the knowledge that conservatory students spend over 75 percent of their time developing their craft. Corey Cott, a senior at Carnegie Mellon, did not mince words: “You can really tell the difference between conservatory-trained actors and non-conservatorytrained actors.” “Usually, I feel like the conservatory-trained actors have a little bit more of a grasp on what they’re doing,” he said.
LEARNING OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM
A large part of the practical training Yale theater students receive comes from their work in what Dorfman, the DUS for the Theater Studies program, called Yale’s “distinctive student-initiated curricular theater season,” largely funded by Creative and Performing Arts awards distributed by the residential colleges. “Something I constantly hear is that Theater Studies takes care of a lot of the theoretical, academic and intellectual [aspects] and that it’s really through the opportunities provided through the Dramat and CPA funds that people get to apply what they’re learning in their classes,” said Meredith Davis ’13, president of the Dramat. That distinction soon became very clear to Jessica Miller ’15, who starred in “A Prayer for Owen Meany,” the Dramat’s freshman show for this year, and attended the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humani-
ties. “It’s very different from an arts program,” Miller said. “One of the first things that’s difficult to navigate is that the director is a student.” Miller said working with students leads to a more relaxed environment than she was previously used, one that is more open and conducive to discussions. “I very much believed a teacher would tell me what is right, when it would be right, which is the complete opposite of how I feel now. There isn’t a single right thing; you’re always trying new things, and that’s what great about being an undergrad at Yale,” Miller said. But being “laid-back,” she added, can affect the process and the quality of the productions that go up. Andrew Freeburg ’13, a board member for the Yale Drama Coalition and a student interested in acting and design, said the extracurricular scene lacks rigor. “It’s awesome that so much stuff happens, but it’s good by coincidence,” Freeburg said. “It’s good because of the people, not because it’s well-organized.” Hearn Feldman said she has faced challenges directing because she has had to work with individuals who are not as serious about her productions as she would like them to be. Jokingly referring to herself as “the meanest director on campus,” she cited the example of one actor she worked with who often arrived late to rehearsals without having learned their lines. When Hearn Feldman told the actor the production was suffering due to his or her behavior, the response she said she received was, “This is just the haphazard way we do theater.” “A lot of directors say to their actors that shows won’t be a huge time commitment,” Hearn Feldman said. “I say it’s going to be a massive time commitment.” When considering the shows going up in any given semester, students who most want to engage in a professional environment tend to select those shows with the most serious production teams, six students interviewed said. “I’m definitely selective in what I audition for,” said Scicolone, adding that she feels a need to supplement her theater studies classes with theater on campus that can be of varying quality. “Sometimes great stuff happens, other times not-so-great stuff happens and it turns out to be not worth the time and energy, and you don’t grow,” Scicolone added. As a freshman, Miller said she is still attempting to identify individuals with whom she enjoys SEE THEATER PAGE 7
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“I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.” LADY GAGA ARTIST
Eli actors weigh value of theater studies degree THEATER FROM PAGE 6 working. A key factor, she added, is “to find people who take things seriously.” Davis said she believes some students feel more comfortable doing shows with the Dramat, run like a production company with a seven-show season, because of the structure it offers. “There is this board that is there as a support and safety net; the director doesn’t have to worry about the set being built,” Davis said. “People can really focus on exactly what they’re going to be doing, and don’t have to focus on aspects of the show that are not under their jurisdiction.” Pitt, the graduating senior and former YDC president, said the Dramat is integral to a theater education at Yale because it provides students with the experience of working in a professional environment. “It’s nice doing a Dramat show because of the professional factor and because of the commitment it requires from everyone involved,” Scicolone said. Knowles, who plans to go into film acting once he graduates, said Dramat productions are known to be the most selective on campus, partly because of their large budget and access to theater spaces such as the Yale Repertory Theatre. “The Dramat is an invaluable resource,” Knowles said. But Davis admitted that not all students want to be involved with Dramat shows and their structure. “Some people don’t like thinking of a group of people choosing shows,” Davis said. “Or they want to rehearse at weird hours, or think of things that are maybe a little riskier than what we do.” In terms of CPA-funded shows, Knowles said, the quality of the experience varies with the student director involved. “I don’t try and expect a lot from anyone I’m working with,” Miller said. “There are varying levels of commitment, which is something you just have to realize going in. Not everyone wants to be an actor.” Freeburg said the number of activities Yalies try to balance alongside their schoolwork, such as theater shows and comedy troupes, results in students often giving short shrift to their extracurricular productions. “The fact that everything is last-minute means awesome crunch-preparation skills, but it’s horrible for production values, professionalism, and your sanity,” Freeburg added. To those like Hearn Feldman, the solution lies in students being involved in fewer productions. “If we don’t do too many shows per semester, we would have much better theater at Yale,” Hearn Feldman said.
REINING IN THE CPA SCENE
The job of coordinating nonDramat extracurricular theater falls to the Yale Drama Coalition, which helps publicize CPAfunded shows and holds theater training workshops. Casey, the coalition’s current president, said she sees her job as helping students “make” undergraduate theater, adding that she is aware of
the recent debate over the number of shows being produced. “This semester, there has been some talk about having too much theater and not enough quality control, and that people should be stricter about who gets to put up shows,” Casey said. “While it may cause some problems and may stretch designers thin, to limit the theater would be mistake.” Speaking as both a student director and YDC president, Casey said she believes the fact that undergraduates have the opportunity to put on shows of their choice and “take chances” is a strength of Yale theater. Miller, a freshman actor, said the “vibrant,” student-based Yale theater scene makes exploration and pushing boundaries possible. “After I directed my second show [‘A Streetcar Named Desire’], I suddenly thought that there was nowhere else I could have directed ‘Streetcar,’ ” Hearn Feldman said. “I realized I would never had this much freedom at a conservatory.” Casey, who considered conservatory programs during her college application process, said she could not think of another program that enables a volume of theater comparable to Yale’s. Yet quantity may not mean quality, a number of students said. Student actor Biondi said more productions may simply result in fewer shows having strong teams. “Because the Yale extracurricular world is so filled with people who do [theater] for fun, for those of us who want to do it professionally, the options are really limited,” Hearn Feldman said. Davis, who manages the Calhoun Cabaret theater space, said there would be benefits to having each show run for two weeks as opposed to the current norm of one. “The tech week, one weekend thing is great, because a lot of people get to use the spaces, but what frustrates me is that spaces don’t get used to the best of their ability,” Davis added. More time spent in the theater means that production teams have more time to develop and perfect set and lighting designs, she said. But considering the limited number of venues for undergraduate theater, Davis said that would involve limiting the number of shows. Obtaining CPA funding would therefore have to become significantly more difficult than it is currently. Faculty involvement in extracurricular theater may be another way to boost the quality of productions, said Bolt, who plans to go into musical theater. She added that at present she does not feel that her Yale experience gives her a chance to understand what the professional theater world looks like, which could change with the presence of instructors active in the field. “I’m looking for guidance,” Bolt said. “I’m not ready to go out into the world and be like ‘I feel I’ve had the experience to be in a Broadway show,’ and the faculty are the people I’m looking to.” Yet the division between the extracurricular scene and the Theater Studies program leaves Bolt confused: “I don’t know if they’re available.”
Playwright and professor Margolin said she is “always glad to support a student production,” if she’s invited to do so. “I only want to involve myself in a student’s project if they want me,” she added. “If they just want to stand up and paint the town red, well, the theater is a place of possibility.” Margolin cited the senior project, for which theater studies majors are provided a faculty advisor, as a good example of studentfaculty cooperation on shows. But, Davis said, faculty involvement even before the senior project could be very useful. “It’s kind of silly that it isn’t until your senior year that the faculty is seeing your skills in a fullblown show,” she said. “When you have someone like [professor] Daniel Larlham or [professor Robert] Woodruff look what you’re directing, that’s how you’re going to learn.” Still, the spirit of the undergraduate theater scene could be lost with increased faculty involvement, Miller said. “I like that the undergrad theater scene and the college side are two distinct worlds for me, because theater doesn’t become an academic thing. It’s still something you’re pushing yourself to explore, and it’s a kind of an escape to just do what you love to do and not have to worry about being graded on it.” Another option, students said, may be attempting to get support from the School of Drama. James Bundy, dean of the School of Drama, said, “The School of Drama, Yale Rep and Yale College together certainly comprise the most complete creative community of professional practice and training, scholarship and extracurricular theatre in the English speaking world.” But Freeburg, who has been involved in projects with YSD students before, said it takes effort to access the School’s resources, and students interested in doing so must make it a priority. “You can take YSD classes if you smile right,” Hearn Feldman said. “If you want to do it, there’s nothing stopping you, but you have to fight for it.” Alumna Siciliano said she found a different attitude at the School of Drama when she asked professors there to teach workshops to students in the early 2000s. She added that she thinks asking School of Drama students to mentor undergraduates could be helpful to students looking for assistance in fine-tuning resumes or audition pieces. Casey, the YDC president, said establishing such a program is a priority for the coalition, as part of its mission to help students. “We look at what the gaps are,” Casey added.
MAKING CONNECTIONS FOR TOMORROW
One way the YDC is trying to plug those gaps is by working with the seven-year-old Creative Yale Alumni Network and Undergraduate Career Services. “If you go to a conservatory, it’s basically a hotbed of networking and practical advice and connections to existing industries,” said Timothy Cooper ’02, head of
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Goldberg moved to New York in 2006 to pursue a career as an actress. She performed with Disney and in a variety of new plays. CO-FOUNDED LIVELY PRODUCTIONS
In 2007, Goldberg and Lisa Siciliano ’05 established Lively Productions, a New York-based theater company that promotes new work by emerging artists, making use of trends in media and technology to highlight innovate performance forms. BLOGOLOGUES
In 2010, Goldberg began working with Jen Jamula ’05 on “Blogologues,” a performance that brings trendy online material to the stage. It is currently running at the Players Loft in New York, and has been featured in publications like The Observer and Metro New York.
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Immediately after graduating, Siciliano worked in the city for a year as a director, producer, actress and educator. She then moved back to Cleveland, her hometown, and worked with a number of theater companies, traveling back and forth between Ohio and New York. She also co-founded Lively Productions with Allison Goldberg ’06, and worked on various shows for the company, during this period. CLEVELAND SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
Siciliano worked as the associate artistic director for the Festival, a non-profit theater company that is now 14 years old. CHICAGO
Siciliano worked as a writer, actress, director and educator, serving as the executive director of The State Theatre Company and studying to receive a Museum Studies certificate at Northwestern. She now works as a teacher and education manager at the Emerald City Theatre Company and is a graduate student in the Master of Science in Education program at Northwestern University.
CYAN. “We formed CYAN when we realized that if alumni from our own school don’t [help us network], no one will.” Associate Dean Allyson Moore, director of UCS, said CYAN and UCS first collaborated in 2010, and are looking to further develop their relationship through career panels and internship opportunities for students interested in going into theater. Casey said speaking with individuals in CYAN has convinced her that graduating from Yale leaves one in “a pretty good place.” “It is true that you may not have that intensive training, but I have to admit that I haven’t heard any people from CYAN say there was a huge deficit in their education,” she added. Cooper said the alumni hope to give students a real-world perspective that leaves out any illusions while remaining positive. He added that a common response has been surprise, with students coming up to him and other alumni and talking about all the myths their advice debunked. Still, a future in the field poses unique challenges after graduation from Yale, alumni and students said. “I didn’t feel as prepared as someone coming out of a BFA program, who was connected with people in cities already,” Siciliano said. “At my first audition, I was like ‘what the heck is this?’ because I was not prepared to sit for hours.”
Young professionals in the real world are in a very different position from students in Yale’s funded extracurricular theater scene, Cooper said. “There’s no real-world Sudler,” he said, referring to the former name of the Creative and Performing Arts fund. “You find out pretty quickly after you graduate that the amount of free money you get at Yale does not exist in the real world.” Goldberg, who graduated a year after Siciliano, said she has found that the Yale name helps her in specific situations, such as when people confuse her undergraduate degree with one from the School of Drama or when she looks for influential backers for productions put up by her company, Lively Productions. In general, Cooper said, the Ivy League prestige does not guarantee a great deal in the world of theater. “It makes you seem credible,” he added. “The hundreds of thousands of dollars you paid give you a brief moment of credibility in a potential employers’ eyes.” But even as career services and the YDC strive to enhance students’ preparation for employment in the theater world, Scicolone said her peers must be realistic in their expectations. “Theater Studies is pretty explicit. They stress that they’re not vocational,” she said. “A lot of us want to struggle against that, but we have no basis to think that
[they should be] because they don’t pitch it to us as that. It’s us wanting to be here, and we can’t blame Theater Studies.” DeRose, the former director of undergraduate studies for the Theater Studies program, stressed that Yale undergraduates should not expect to receive the same kind of preparation as that found in conservatories. “You don’t go to Yale College as an undergraduate if all you want to do is receive ‘training,’” DeRose said. Referring to his time at Yale, he added, “I wanted to create ‘theatre artists,’ people who wanted to explore artistic expression through creating theatre, not people who wanted to have a ‘job’ as actors.” But for a number of undergraduates, that latter path is the goal. Asked what she thinks Yale students can do to best prepare themselves for the field, Scicolone said she would recommend pragmatism. “There comes a point in your theater studies education where you accept that you can’t expect to have great vocational training as an actor here,” she said. “Accepting that and not struggling against it is a big part of being a grounded theater studies major here, and then you do everything extracurricularly that you can to fill the void.” Contact AKBAR AHMED at akbar.ahmed@yale.edu .
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1 in 2 new graduates are jobless or underemployed BY HOPE YEN ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The college class of 2012 is in for a rude welcome to the world of work. A weak labor market already has left half of young college graduates either jobless or underemployed in positions that don’t fully use their skills and knowledge. Young adults with bachelor’s degrees are increasingly scraping by in lower-wage jobs - waiter or waitress, bartender, retail clerk or receptionist, for example - and that’s confounding their hopes a degree would pay off despite higher tuition and mounting student loans. An analysis of government data conducted for The Associated Press lays bare the highly uneven prospects for holders of bachelor’s degrees. Opportunities for college graduates vary widely. While there’s strong demand in science, education and health fields, arts and humanities flounder. Median wages for those with bachelor’s degrees are down
from 2000, hit by technological changes that are eliminating midlevel jobs such as bank tellers. Most future job openings are projected to be in lower-skilled positions such as home health aides, who can provide personalized attention as the U.S. population ages. Taking underemployment into consideration, the job prospects for bachelor’s degree holders fell last year to the lowest level in more than a decade. “I don’t even know what I’m looking for,” says Michael Bledsoe, who described months of fruitless job searches as he served customers at a Seattle coffeehouse. The 23-year-old graduated in 2010 with a creative writing degree. Initially hopeful that his college education would create opportunities, Bledsoe languished for three months before finally taking a job as a barista, a position he has held for the last two years. In the beginning he sent three or four resumes day. But, Bledsoe said, employers questioned his lack of experience or the practical worth of his major. Now he sends
a resume once every two weeks or so. Bledsoe, currently making just above minimum wage, says he got financial help from his parents to help pay off student loans. He is now mulling whether to go to graduate school, seeing few other options to advance his career. “There is not much out there, it seems,” he said. His situation highlights a widening but little-discussed labor problem. Perhaps more than ever, the choices that young adults make earlier in life - level of schooling, academic field and training, where to attend college, how to pay for it - are having longlasting financial impact. “You can make more money on average if you go to college, but it’s not true for everybody,” says Harvard economist Richard Freeman, noting the growing risk of a debt bubble with total U.S. student loan debt surpassing $1 trillion. “If you’re not sure what you’re going to be doing, it probably bodes well to take some job, if you can get one, and get a sense first of what you want from college.”
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Barista Michael Bledsoe adds to his tip jar after making a drink for a customer in a coffee shop in Seattle. Andrew Sum, director of the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University who analyzed the numbers, said many people with a bachelor’s degree
face a double whammy of rising tuition and poor job outcomes. “Simply put, we’re failing kids coming out of college,” he said, emphasizing that when it comes
to jobs, a college major can make all the difference. “We’re going to need a lot better job growth and connections to the labor market, otherwise college debt will grow.”
Iowa paper devotes front page to fighting bullying BY TIMBERLY ROSS ASSOCIATED PRESS In a rare and forceful act of advocacy, an Iowa newspaper devoted the entire front page of its Sunday edition to an anti-bullying editorial after a gay teen committed suicide. Relatives have said 14-yearold Kenneth Weishuhn Jr. suffered intense harassment, including threatening cellphone calls and
nasty comments posted online, after coming out to family and friends about a month ago. He died April 15 from what the local sheriff’s office described only as a “self-inflicted injury.” The Sioux City Journal’s frontpage opinion piece calls on the community to be pro-active in stopping bullying and urges members to learn more about the problem by seeing the acclaimed new film, “Bully,” which documents
the harassment of a Sioux City middle school student. It notes that while many students are targeted for being gay, “we have learned a bully needs no reason to strike.” “In Kenneth’s case, the warnings were everywhere,” the editorial said. “We saw it happen in other communities, now it has hit home. Undoubtedly, it wasn’t the first life lost to bullying here, but we can strive to make it the last.
More firings expected in BY ALICIA CALDWELL ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The chairman of a House committee investigating an alleged Secret Service prostitution scandal predicted more firings as key lawmakers and a top adviser to President Barack Obama expressed confidence Sunday that the agency will effectively deal with the incident. “Every possible lead is being examined,” said Rep. Peter King, who heads the House Homeland Security Committee. King, R-N.Y., said he expected that in the “near future, several other” members of the Secret Service will leave. “What they were thinking is beyond me,” King told NBC’s “Meet the Press.” So far, the scandal includes 12 Secret Service employees and 11 military members. Six of the Secret Service members have lost their jobs. One has been cleared and five remain on administrative leave. The main incident occurred shortly before Obama arrived for a meeting of regional presidents last weekend. A Secret Service official confirmed Sunday that one of the 12 implicated in the scandal was staying at a different hotel than the others. He was staying at the Hilton, where Obama eventually would stay, said the official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly. The agent is being investigated for improprieties in a separate incident that may have happened on April 9, days before the president arrived and while the hotel was still open to the general public. Sen. Joe Lieberman, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, also mentioned the 12th agent under investigation in an appearance on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
“Now we don’t know at this point what that 12th agent is being charged with and why he’s been put on administrative leave. But now you’re into the hotel where the president of the United States was going to stay. And it just gets more troubling,” Lieberman said. Lieberman told Fox News Sunday there is “no evidence that information was compromised” in the incidents. Those involved “were not acting like Secret Service agents. They were acting like a bunch of college students away on a spring student weekend,” Lieberman said.
I can’t help but wonder if there had been more women as part of that detail, if this ever would have happened. SUSAN COLLINS U.S. Senator (R-Maine) King, Lieberman and other leaders of congressional committees examining the scandal made the rounds on Sunday news shows. Generally, they said the scandal was being closely scrutinized on Capitol Hill and voiced support for Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan’s handling of the matter. Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod said the allegations are disturbing, but that the misdeeds of a few individuals should not tarnish the overall work and reputation of the service. Axelrod told CNN’s “State of the Union” that he always felt the agents were willing to go to great lengths to protect the president and the people around him. He called the conduct in Colombia “really disappointing.” “I think we will get to the bot-
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tom of it,” said Axelrod, who worked at the White House before leaving last year to work full time in Obama’s re-election campaign office in Chicago. He later told NBC that “on the whole, the Secret Service does heroic work. This is quite disturbing. We have to get to the bottom of this, and I’m sure we will.” Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., a frequent critic of the president, declined to fault the White House’s response. “You know, I’m not critical of what the administration has done thus far,” he told CBS. “I think what we’re seeing is an aberration.” Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, the senior Republican on the Homeland Security Committee, and Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., both said that more female Secret Service agents might help guard against such incidents from happening again. “I can’t help but wonder if there had been more women as part of that detail, if this ever would have happened,” Collins said on ABC’s “This Week.” Maloney told the same program that only 11 percent of the Secret Service’s agents are women. “I can’t help but keeping asking this question: Where are the women? We probably need to diversify the service and have more minorities and more women,” Maloney said. Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, told NBC that the episode was “something the Secret Service can fix. We have confidence that it will be fixed.” “The most important thing is that this never happens again,” Issa said. Ralph Basham, a former Secret Service Director, told CBS the behavior of those implicated in the scandal “could have compromised the trip and the safety of the president.”
Editor Mitch Pugh said the newspaper has run front-page editorials before but has never devoted the entire page to one. “A lot of newspapers shy away from putting editorials on the front page, but we feel we have to be a strong advocate for our community,” he said. “And if we don’t do that, we’re not sure who else is.” Weishuhn’s mother, Jeannie Chambers, told the Journal last week that she and the rest of the
family knew he was being harassed but didn’t realize the extent of the bullying. His sister told a local television station that Weishuhn, a freshman, had many friends and was popular at South O’Brien High School in Paullina until he came out. Then students turned on him. Weishuhn’s family couldn’t immediately be reached Sunday by The Associated Press. Pugh said the newspaper didn’t
consult the family before printing the editorial. “This was a bigger issue than one person,” he said. Andy Marra, a spokesman for the national anti-bullying group GLSEN, said the Journal’s decision makes “complete sense.” “Public education is absolutely vital to addressing bullying and harassment in schools,” he said, adding that community pressure could push schools to do more.
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“I am not more ambitious than the others, at least not those who are doing the same job I am. Only I have chosen not to negate this part of myself that has always driven me to move forward.” NICOLAS SARKOZY PRESIDENT OF FRANCE
France headed to presidential runoff BY ANGELA CHARLTON ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS — Socialist Francois Hollande and conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy are heading for a runoff election in their race for France’s presidency, according to partial official results in a vote that could alter the European political and economic landscape. French voters defied expectations and handed a surprisingly strong third-place showing to far-right candidate Marine Le Pen, who has run on an anti-immigrant platform aimed largely at Muslims. That could boost her influence on the French political scene, hand her party seats in parliament and
affect relations with minorities. With 75 percent of the vote counted, Hollande had 27.9 percent of ballots cast and Sarkozy 26.7 percent, according to figures released by the Interior Ministry after final polls closed. Le Pen was in third with 19.2 percent of the vote so far. In fourth place was leftist firebrand Jean-Luc Melenchon with 10.8 percent, followed by centrist Francois Bayrou with 9.2 percent and five other candidates with minimal support. Turnout was also surprisingly high, projected by polling agencies at about 80 percent, despite concern that a campaign lacking a single overarching theme had failed to inspire voters. Hollande, a 57-year-old who
has worried investors with his pledges to boost government spending, pledged to cut France’s huge debts, boost growth and unite the French after Sarkozy’s divisive first term. “Tonight I become the candidate of all the forces who want to turn one page and turn another,” Hollande, with a confidence and stately air he has often lacked during the campaign, told an exuberant crowd in his hometown of Tulle in southern France. Sarkozy said he recognized voters’ concerns about jobs and immigration, and “the concern of our compatriots to preserve their way of life,” he told supporters at his campaign headquarters in Paris’ Left Bank. Ten candidates faced off for
Sunday’s first round of voting, a referendum on Sarkozy at a time when many French voters are worried about high joblessness and weak economic prospects and the president is seen as too cozy with the rich. The top two candidates head to a runoff May 6. The race is on now to sway Le Pen’s voters for the decisive second round. Le Pen herself told AP last week that she was not going to give instructions to her voters. While Sarkozy has borrowed some of her anti-immigrant rhetoric and campaign themes of national identity, Le Pen has repeatedly criticized Sarkozy and says he is a has-been with no chance of returning to office.
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French socialist presidential candidate Francois Hollande arrives at Brive airport after the first round of voting on Sunday.
US, Afghanistan reach pact BY HEIDI VOGT ASSOCIATED PRESS KABUL, Afghanistan — The U.S. and Afghanistan reached a deal Sunday on a long-delayed strategic partnership agreement that ensures Americans will provide military and financial support to the Afghan people for at least a decade beyond 2014, the deadline for most foreign forces to withdraw. The pact is key to the U.S. exit strategy in Afghanistan because it establishes guidelines for any American forces who remain after the withdrawal deadline and for financial help to the impoverished country and its security forces. For the Afghan government, it is also a way to show its people that their U.S. allies are not just walking away. “Our goal is an enduring partnership with Afghanistan that strengthens Afghan sovereignty, stability and prosperity and that contributes to our shared goal of defeating al-Qaida and its extremist affiliates,” said U.S. Embassy spokesman Gavin Sundwall. “We believe this agreement supports that goal.” After 10 years of U.S.-led war, insurgents linked to the Taliban and al-Qaida remain a threat and as recently as a week ago launched a large-scale attack on the capital Kabul and three other cities. The draft agreement was worked out and initialed by Afghan National Security Adviser Rangin Dadfar Spanta and U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker. It must still be reviewed in both countries and signed afterward by the Afghan and American presidents. U.S. forces have already started pulling out of Afghanistan, and the majority of combat troops are scheduled to depart by the end of 2014. But the U.S. is expected to maintain a large presence in the country for years after, including special forces, military trainers and government-assistance programs. The agreement is both an achievement and a relief for both
sides, coming after months of turmoil that seemed to put the entire alliance in peril. It shows that the two governments are still committed to working together and capable of coming to some sort of understanding. “The document finalized today provides a strong foundation for the security of Afghanistan, the region and the world and is a document for the development of the region,” Spanta said in a statement issued by President Hamid Karzai’s office. Neither Afghan nor U.S. officials would comment on the details of the agreement. A Western official familiar with the negotiations said it outlines a strategic partnership for 10 years beyond 2014. Reaching any agreement is likely to be seen as a success given more than a year and a half of negotiations during which the entire effort appeared in danger of falling apart multiple times.
The document finalized today provides a strong foundation for the security of Afghanistan, the region and the world. RANGIN DADFAR SPANTA Afghan National Security Adviser Since the beginning of the year, U.S.-Afghan relations have been strained by an Internet video of American Marines urinating on the corpses of presumed Taliban fighters, by Quran burnings at a U.S. base that sparked days of deadly protests and by the alleged killing spree by a U.S. soldier in a southern Afghan village. Tensions were further heightened by a spate of turncoat attacks by Afghan security forces on their international counterparts. White House National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor said President Barack
Obama expects to sign the document before a NATO summit in Chicago next month, meeting the deadline set by the two sides. Many had started to worry in recent weeks that Karzai and Obama would miss that goal as talks dragged on and Karzai continued to announce new demands for the document. Much of the disagreement was about how to handle activities that the Afghan government saw as threatening its sovereignty, in particular, night raids and the detention of Afghan citizens by international forces. Those two major issues were resolved earlier this year in separate memorandums of understanding. But closed-door talks continued for weeks after those sidedeals were signed. And then as recently as last week, Karzai said that he wanted the agreement to include a dollar figure for funding for the Afghan security forces - a demand that would be hard for the Americans to sign off on given the need for congressional approval for funding. U.S. officials have said previously that they expected the document to address economic and development support for Afghanistan more generally. The final document is likely to be short on specifics. U.S. officials involved in the negotiations have said previously that the strategic partnership will provide a framework for future relations, but that details of how U.S. forces operate in the country will come in a later agreement. The initialing ceremony means that the text of the document is now locked in. But the countries will have to go through their own internal review processes, Sundwall said. “For the United States, that will mean interagency review, consultation with Congress as appropriate and final review by the president,” Sundwall said. In Afghanistan, the agreement will have to be approved by parliament. The Afghan foreign minister will brief Afghan lawmakers about the document Monday, the Afghan president’s statement said.
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Research conducted by the Society of Human Resource Managers indicates that more than 53 percent of individuals lie about their resume in some way.
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Study: People less likely to lie on online resumes
Students march to ‘take back the night’
BY JONATHAN DAWSON STAFF WRITER Resumes posted on the popular professional networking site LinkedIn contain fewer lies about work experience than traditional, paper copies of resumes, researchers from the Cornell Social Media Lab said in a study. Because LinkedIn resumes are posted online and are visible to former employers and co-workers, the researchers –– Prof. Jeff Hancock, communication and information science, and Jamie Guillory grad M.S. ’10 –– thought that people tell the truth more often on public LinkedIn profiles than on traditional resumes. To test this idea, the researchers surveyed 119 Cornell undergraduates who had not previously created a profile on LinkedIn –– one-third of whom were asked to create a public online LinkedIn resume for an international marketing consultant position. The position offered “attractive international office locations,” along with a high starting salary and sign-on bonus. A third of the participants created a private LinkedIn resume, while the control group typed a resume on a Microsoft Word document. “This job description was embellished so that it was supposed to be difficult for an undergraduate to meet the qualifications,” Guillory said, noting that the job required three to five years of work experience. After participants created their resumes, the researchers asked them to report any information that was not the entire truth. When asking participants to disclose false information they had included on their resume, Guillory said that the researchers “provided them with statistics from other studies that demonstrated people lying often in their resumes and reminded them that lying on resumes is a common behavior.” According to Guillory, more than 90 percent of participants in the study lied at least once on their resumes.
“We did see overall that it was more common for people to exaggerate and tell subtle lies than to tell outright lies,” Guillory said. Resumes that were created on Microsoft CORNELL Word or were private on LinkedIn had more exaggerations about subjects’ previous work experiences than the public resumes posted on LinkedIn by the experimental group. However, the public resumes contained more lies about participants’ interests. Participants with private resumes did not lie as much on their resumes because “they can only lie so much,” Hancock said. “Our thinking is that they’ve already accomplished what they wanted to do,” Hancock said. “They’ve already lied about previous jobs, so they don’t want to feel like a liar … We don’t know for sure, but that’s what we think.” Some participants in the study lied about the length of time worked at a particular company. Other lies, such as specific interests or recreational activities, were difficult to verify with other people. “It’s really difficult for someone to say, ‘I know you’re not interested in traveling or learning a different language,’” Guillory said. “[The participants] chose to lie in a way that is safer for them, but makes them look slightly better.” Hancock said that job applicants might be more inclined to lie on resumes tailored for competitive jobs. “If they tried to get a ... less attractive job, they probably would have lied less,” Hancock said. “They lie for specific goals, like self-presentation.” The types of lies observed included bending the truth — for example, altering the length of time worked at a job — omitting information and outright lies. Although researchers did not specifically study the type of lies found in resumes, Guillory said that they did not see many outright lies.
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In the first year that men were allowed to march at the front, Take Back the Night paraded down the streets of Morningside Heights on Thursday night to raise awareness about sexual violence. BY ABBY ABRAMS STAFF WRITER Chants and whistles permeated Morningside Heights on Thursday night, as students and local residents held the 24th annual Take Back the Night March. The march, which was completely gender-neutral for the first time this year, aims to raise awareness about sexual violence and create a safe space for survivors of rape and sexual assault. “I’ve known a lot of survivors, and I think it’s important to bring the community together for something like this,” Rachel Herzog, BC ’15, said. The march, an international event founded in 1978, was held at Barnard for the first time in 1988. TBTN was opened to all genders for the first time in 2008, but until this year, the front of the march had remained a women-only space. “I think it’s awesome,” Marcus Hunter, CC ’15, said of the change. “Everyone is implicated in rape culture, so it’s good to see that the movement is inclusive of everyone now.” In the spirit of the march’s gender-neutrality, TBTN reached out to the Men’s Peer Education program this year to encourage peer educators to participate. As participants marched through the streets, they chanted, “Two, four, six, eight! Stop the violence! Stop the hate!” and “Rape is a felony, even with CUID!” They also started a spontaneous chant of “Take back all the nights,” in reference to a speech given by Heben Nigatu, CC ’13, at the pre-march rally. First-time marcher Frank Pinto, SEAS ’12, said he enjoyed
his experience as a marshal, responsible for directing the marchers and the COLUMBIA chanting. “I liked the energy,” he said. “It felt like the crowd was just as excited as the marshals were.” At one point during the night, Pinto said, people started throwing eggs at the marchers. Despite this, many marchers said that neighborhood residents showed support for their cause. “It was great to see the community supporting this. When we walked by the brownstones and they had Take Back the Night banners, I got teary-eyed to see all these people who aren’t even marching with us supporting us,” said Lea Farrell, BC ’13 and cocoordinator of this year’s march. At the pre-march rally, Nigatu talked about combatting the rape culture on Columbia’s campus, challenging students to “be selfcritical and to interrogate your own organizations and your own actions” when it comes to being aware of sexual violence. The march was followed by a “speak-out” in Barnard’s LeFrak Gym, where survivors and those close to them shared their stories anonymously. “I think it [sexual violence] affects a lot of people,” said Gita Deo, BC ’12 and the other TBTN co-coordinator. “It’s really all around us, but nobody notices it, and this is a way to make people notice.” April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, which is sponsored by the University’s Sexual Vio-
lence Response Program. Other events have included performances, lectures, and spokenword poetry gatherings. University President Lee Bollinger expressed support for TBTN and SAAM in an email to Columbia students on Thursday, urging them to “consider participating in Sexual Assault Awareness Month and doing your part to help prevent sexual assault.” He added that it has lon g been a priority at Columbia to “increase awareness about sexual assault, decrease its frequency, support survivors of violence, and hold accountable students who violate University policies.” The march took place less than a week after an attempted sexual assault in Riverside Park. A Bwog post on the attack sparked dozens of comments debating whether the woman who was attacked should be blamed for jogging through the park alone at about 6 p.m. TBTN released a statement Tuesday condemning comments that blamed the woman who was attacked. “It’s obviously really problematic when you’re faulting someone for an assault that they experienced,” TBTN press liaison Lauren Herold, CC ’12, said. “I was kind of shocked that these ideas are still getting reproduced no matter how many times we talk about them.” Herold added that she hoped people would think about the comments during the march. “It’s kind of a timely example of how important these issues are and how much work we have to do to constantly combat victim blaming, or rape culture, or misogynistic or racist attitudes,” she said.
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ON CAMPUS TUESDAY, APRIL 24 5:00 P.M. “The ‘Abyss of Mystery’ and the Searches for Meaning: The Role of Medical Arts and Sciences.” Martin E. Marty will give the Margaret A. Farley Lecture, sponsored by the Yale Bioethics Center. Institution for Social and Policy Studies (77 Prospect St.), room A002. 7:00 P.M. “Dying for the Family: Animal Sacrifice and Kinship in India.” Radhika Govindrajan, a graduate student in the Department of Anthropology, will give this Yale Himalaya Initiative seminar. Kroon Hall (195 Prospect St.), room 319.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25 12:00 P.M. “Emergency Preparedness 101: Good Planning Results in Peace of Mind.” This workshop, given by Maria Bouffard, director of emergency management at Yale, will address the specifics to help you minimize the impact of the types of losses that accompany disasters. Sterling Memorial Library (128 Wall St.), lecture hall.
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3:30 P.M. “Floods, Droughts, and River Food Webs: AlgalMediated Connections of Rivers, Oceans, and Uplands.” Mary Power of the University of California, Berkeley, is the G. Evelyn Hutchinson Distinguished Speaker. Refreshments will be served. Class of 1954 Environmental Sciences Center (21 Sachem St.), room 110.
THURSDAY, APRIL 26 1:30 P.M. “The Voice of Your Brother’s Blood: Testimonies of Coexistence and Genocide from Buczacz, Galicia.” Omer Bartov of Brown University will give this Genocide Studies seminar. Institution for Social and Policy Studies (77 Prospect St.), room B012.
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5:30 P.M. “The Secrets of Field Notes: Capturing Science, Nature and Exploration.” Michael R. Canfield of Harvard University will share stories, anecdotes, maps, photographs and drawings from historical and contemporary field notes to reveal scientific knowledge, expeditions and important discoveries. Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (170 Whitney Ave.).
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TRACK LARRY ELLIS INVITATIONAL Standouts for the men’s team included Mike Levine ’13 who, while scratching on five of six throws, managed to place second in the discus. On the women’s team, Allison Rue ’13 placed second in the 800-m. Both team’s 4x100-m teams had season-best times.
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FOOTBALL BLUE-WHITE SPRING SCRIMMAGE In the annual spring game, quarterback John Whitelaw ’14, right, threw three touchdown passes and looked poised to take over the starting role next year. In the absence of captain Will McHale ’13, Colin Bibb ’13 led the defense and Nick Okano ’14 had an interception.
“We get to play [Harvard] at home ... It’s a great opportunity for us to finish our regular season on the right note.” DERON DEMPSTER ’13 ATTACKMAN, M. LACROSSE YALE DAILY NEWS · MONDAY, APRIL 23, 2012 · yaledailynews.com
ELIS ARE TOP DOGS
Attackman Matt Gibson ’12 scored with 1.7 seconds remaining in the second overtime to give the No. 20 Bulldogs a 10-9 win over No. 19 Bryant on Friday. PAGE B3 BLAIR SEIDEMAN/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
After defeating a red-hot Bryant squad in dramatic fashion on Friday, the men’s lacrosse team has now won three consecutive games in overtime, and has a six-game overall winning streak.
Bulldogs take back Case Cup
W. tennis takes Ivy League BY JOSEPH ROSENBERG STAFF REPORTER The No. 30 Bulldogs (18–3, 6–0 Ivy) have won the Ivy League title for the second consecutive season with one match to spare thanks to a pair of 6–1 victories this weekend. The two victories pushed the Elis’ winning streak to eight matches.
BY MARIA GUARDADO STAFF REPORTER
WOMEN’S TENNIS
Yale women’s crew had a strong showing against archrival Radcliffe on Saturday on the Housatonic River in Derby, Conn.
WOMEN’S CREW The No. 15 Bulldogs took four out of five matchups and captured the Case Cup by defeating No. 12 Radcliffe in the varsity eight race. “I thought we raced really well as a team,” head coach Will Porter said. “It was our most complete effort of the year, as far as being aggressive and rowing well as crews and really representing Yale women’s rowing for what it is.” In the varsity eight race, Yale gained an advantage off the start, and by the 1,000meter mark, the Elis were more than a full boat length ahead of their rivals. The Bulldogs crossed the line at 6:46.0, more than seven seconds ahead of Radcliffe, to take back the Case Cup after Harvard claimed the prize last year. “I thought they rowed their best race of the year to date,” Porter said. “They raced with a high level of trust and performed well.” The second varsity eight turned out to be the closest race of the day. The Bulldogs opened up an early lead, but Radcliffe surged to pull even with Yale midway through the race, and then built a slight advantage of its own. Though the Bulldogs fought back over the last 500 meters, Radcliffe edged the Bulldogs by 1.3 seconds to capture the race. “We had a close, hard-fought race that we SEE W. CREW PAGE B3
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Annie Sullivan ’14 won twice over the weekend as Yale clinched its second straight title.
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On Friday, Yale’s defeat of Harvard (10–7, 3–3 Ivy) ensured that the Bulldogs would claim at least a share of the Ivy League title. On Sunday, the Elis traveled to Dartmouth (8–12, 2–4 Ivy) in search of the Ivy League crown, which they placed firmly on their heads via a comprehensive 6–1 win. “It’s been 31 years since Yale women’s tennis has won two consecutive Ivy titles,” captain Steph Kent ’12 said. “That number has been keeping us motivated and has kept us going.” Against both the Crimson and the Big Green, the Bulldogs won the first four points of the match, eliminating the opportunity for their opponents to make a comeback. For the 19th and 20th time in their 21 matches, Yale jumped out to a 1–0 lead by winning the doubles point. Against Harvard, the Elis won the doubles point 2–1, with the No. 81 pairing of Amber Li ’15 and Vicky Brook ’12 dropping its match at No. 1. Yale claimed the doubles point against Dartmouth 3–0. Coach Danielle McNamara attributed the team’s success in doubles this year to many hours of practice. “We’ve spent an incredible amount of time in practice working on doubles,” McNamara said. “We’ve been working on doubles for years. Now, our players are really starting to understand how to play high-quality doubles.” Against Harvard, the Bulldogs quickly snatched wins at No. 2, No. 5 and No. 6. At No. 2, Blair Seideman ’14 pushed her winning streak to seven matches by dominating her opponent Camille Jania 6–1, 6–0. Jania had been 10–1 in the spring season prior to playSEE W. TENNIS PAGE B3
THE NUMBER OF OVERTIMES THE MEN’S LACROSSE TEAM HAS PLAYED THIS SEASON. In four games — including three wins — the team has gone to a fifth, fourth, double, and single overtime. Those games were against Princeton, Brown, Bryant and Stony Brook, respectively.
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Dartmouth dashes baseball’s hopes learning point for us going into the next season … We’re going to have to learn how to win close games.” In the first game of the series on Friday Yale took an early 1–0 lead when first baseman Kevin Fortunato ’14 homered in the top of the second inning. Dartmouth rallied for three runs in the bottom of the fifth, however, to erase Yale’s lead. Although Yale knotted the game at three all on a two-run single by Fortunato, the Big Green went on top for good with a twoout single by centerfielder Jake Carlson. Fortunato continued to stay hot in the second game, driving in two with a double in the first, but Dartmouth led 4–2 after two innings. Yale chipped away at the lead with a run-scoring groundout by designated hitter Josh Scharff ’13 in the fourth before outfielder Charlie Neil ’12 tied it with an RBI double in the sixth. The score remained tied until Big Green first baseman Dustin Selzer hit a walk–off single in the bottom of the 12th to give Dart-
BY CHARLES CONDRO STAFF REPORTER The saying goes in baseball that there is always next year. That will have to be the case for the Bulldogs, as they were eliminated from contention in the Ivy League by Dartmouth this weekend.
BASEBALL Yale (9–30–1, 2–14 Ivy) was swept by Dartmouth (17–15, 11–5 Ivy) in Hanover. After two onerun losses in the doubleheader on Friday, the Elis fell seven games behind the Big Green in the Red Rolfe division with just six Ancient Eight contests remaining. Dartmouth then swept the twin bill on Saturday for emphasis. In what has been a familiar theme all season, Yale was close to Dartmouth in every game. Three of the four contests were decided by two runs or less — Yale is 5–17 in such games on the season. “We are much, much better than our record shows,” shortstop Cale Hanson ’14 said. “It’s a good
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mouth a 5–4 win and end Yale’s postseason hopes. “For whatever reason we haven’t been able to come up with the big hit this year,” catcher Ryan Brenner ’12. “I’m really proud of the guys. It’s not because [they] didn’t try.”
We are much, much better than our record shows. It’s a good learning point for us going into the next season. CALE HANSON ’14 Shortstop, baseball With nothing but pride to play for in Saturday’s doubleheader, the Bulldogs did not go down without a fight. Yale starter Pat Ludwig ’12 struck out six and gave up just five hits over six innings. Ludwig was tagged for a two-run home run by Selzer though, which would prove more than enough run support for Dartmouth hurler Kyle Hunter. Hunter threw a seven-inning complete game shutout to notch his second win on the season. Despite taking a one-run lead in the top of the first in the final game of the series, the Bulldogs were outslugged by the Big Green 8–4 in the final game of the series. “The seniors have pretty much said to learn from this experience,” pitcher Eric Hsieh ’15 said. “To remember what it feels like when you’re losing … to learn from it and never let it happen again.” Although hopes of an Ivy League crown were put to rest this weekend, Yale’s season is not over. The team wants to end the season on a winning streak to send out the class of 2012 and set the tone for next season, Hanson and Hsieh said. Yale will travel to Holy Cross tomorrow for a weekday game against the Crusaders. Contact CHARLES CONDRO at charles.condro@yale.edu .
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Kevin Fortunato ’14, who plays first base as well as pitching, had a home run and six RBI over the weekend.
Crew teams face first losses
Elis ride two wins to title
YALE ATHLETICS
The women’s tennis team beat Harvard and Dartmouth over the weekend.
W. TENNIS FROM PAGE B1 CAROL HSIN/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
After starting the season undefeated, heavyweight crew fell to Cornell and Princeton over the weekend. BY LINDSEY UNIAT STAFF REPORTER It was a disappointing weekend for the heavyweight and lightweight crew teams, as both of their previously undefeated varsity eight boats lost their titles and finished in last place.
MEN’S CREW On Saturday, the heavyweight team took on Cornell and Princeton in Ithaca, N.Y., while the lightweight team travelled to Dartmouth to race the Big Green. The heavyweights faced a strong headwind with minimal current, which made race times longer than in ideal conditions, whereas the lightweights had to contend with only a mild headwind that lessened throughout the day. The heavyweight team, which has swept the V 8+, junior varsity 8+ and freshman 8+ in all of its earlier regattas this season, instead lost all three races and the contested Carnegie Cup to Cornell. Yale ranked second in the junior varsity eight and the freshman eight races, but finished third in the varsity. In the V8+ race, all three crews
were fairly even in the first 1000m of the 2000m course, but in the second half of the race, Cornell and Princeton pulled ahead of the Bulldogs. The Cornell varsity boat crossed the finish line at 6:00.7, followed by Princeton at 6:04.6 and Yale at 6:11.3. “We rowed an aggressive race off the start but never settled into a rhythm,” team captain Tom Dethlefs ’12 said. “Without a stable rhythm, we didn’t have the cohesiveness to keep the boat speed up in the last part of the race. We had a very good week of training leading up to the Carnegie Cup, and so while this was certainly not ideal I don’t think it was representative of the speed we have been producing in practice.” Dethlefs added that if the team continues to train as it has, it should be able to rebound from these loses and do well in the Eastern Sprints, its first championship race of the season. The lightweight crew team managed to win its JV 8+, V 4 and F 8+ races against Dartmouth by sizable margins — 19.0, 4.5 and 9.6 seconds respectively. But that was not enough to win the contested Durand Cup. Despite taking an early lead in the V 8+ race, the Big Green
caught up to the Bulldogs by the halfway point and ended up besting them 6:03.6 to 6:09.1. Head coach Andy Card said the team was disappointed to come up short against Dartmouth in the varsity races, but that the race served as a learning experience. He added that the coxswains did well navigating the Connecticut River and that Yale’s JV 8+, V 4 and F8+ have improved their speed. Team captain David Walker ’12 agreed, adding that the team did well to win three out of four races on Saturday. He added that the varsity race was competitive, despite being the squad’s first loss of the season. Next weekend, the lightweight team will take on Harvard and Princeton for the Goldthwait Cup in its first and only home regatta of the season. Both the heavyweights and the lightweights will compete in the Eastern Sprints in midMay and the Intercollegiate Rowing Association National Championship at the beginning of June. Contact LINDSEY UNIAT at lindsey.uniat@yale.edu .
ing Seideman. Kent simply overmatched her opponent at No. 5, romping to a 6–2, 6–0 victory. And at No. 6, Annie Sullivan ’14 routed her opponent, cruising to a 6–1, 6–3 straight-set win. The remaining three singles matches all went to three sets. With the four points necessary for victory secured, each match entered a third-set tiebreaker. At No. 1, Elizabeth Epstein ’13 was just edged out by her opponent after herself holding several match points. Hanna Yu ’15 topped her opponent 10–7 at No. 3 while at No. 4, Vicky Brook ’12 came out on top, 10–8. On Sunday, the Bulldogs were even more superior in singles. Of the five singles matches that the Elis won, all were in straight sets. The only match that Yale dropped was at No. 5, where Kent came out the wrong side of an extremely close match, 7–6(5), 7–5. The Ivy League title was clinched at No. 3. Yu had no idea she was the decisive match until the last moment. “I didn’t really realize that I was the clincher until I won the last point and my teammates who were off the court just came running to hug me,” Yu said. “It was a
really good feeling.” Despite already having secured the Ivy League title, Yale will meet No. 56 Brown (17–7, 3–3 Ivy) in the regular season finale on April 28. It would not be in the character of this team to take the match lightly.
I didn’t really realize that I was the clincher until I won the last point and my teammates...just came running to hug me.” HANNA YU ’15 Women’s tennis
“We’ve never been in this situation where we’ve clinched the title with one match to go,” McNamara said. “We’ll be ready for the next one, though. Brown at home still has NCAA implications.” Yale will meet Brown at the Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center on April 28 at 12 p.m. Contact JOSEPH ROSENBERG at joseph.rosenberg@yale.edu .
YALE DAILY NEWS · MONDAY, APRIL 23, 2012 · yaledailynews.com
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SPORTS
Nadal beats Djokovic to win Monte-Carlo Masters World No. 2 Rafael Nadal cruised to an easy victory over No. 1 Novak Djokovic in the finals of the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters. The Spaniard won in straight sets, 6-3, 6-1. Grieving for his grandfather Vladimir, Djokovic’s play had been off the entire tournament. He’d been informed of the loss just hours before his third-round game against Alexandr Dolgopolov, and went on to drop two sets before the finals.
Elis win sixth straight
S C O R E S & S TA N D I N G S
MEN’S GOLF IVY SCHOOL
W
RANK AVG. SCORE W%
1
Yale
2
151
75.73
66.971
2
Columbia
1
186
75.67
65.102
3
Penn
2
169
75.44
67.536
4
Princeton
0
171
76.11
65.592
5
Harvard
1
200
76.55
53.247
6
Dartmouth
0
209
76.17
50.476
7
Cornell
0
250
78.29
17.702
8
Brown
0
262
79.13
13.375
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FRIDAY, APR. 27, Ivy League Championship at Galloway National
SATURDAY, APR. 21, DAY 1 3rd place
SOFTBALL IVY SCHOOL
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%
W L
%
1
Harvard
15
1
.938
28
11
.718
2
Penn
11
5
.688
27
15
.643
Cornell
11
5
.688
21
19
.525
4
Princeton
8
8
.500
14
27
.341
5
Columbia
6
10
.375
12
29
.293
6
Dartmouth
5
11
.312
12
21
.364
Brown
5
11
.312
8
24
.250
Yale
3
13
.188
10
30
.250
8
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Attacker Matt Gibson ’12, who leads Yale with 25 goals and 40 points this season, sealed the team’s victory Friday with a goal in the second overtime. BY JOHN SULLIVAN STAFF REPORTER The 2012 Yale men’s lacrosse team cannot seem to avoid excitement. Friday night under the lights at Reese Stadium, the No. 20 Elis (8–4, 3–2 Ivy) knocked off the No. 19 Bryant Bulldogs, 11–10, in the second extra period for their third straight overtime victory.
MEN’S LACROSSE “We’re not trying to, actually,” attackman Deron Dempster ’13 said when asked about his team’s propensity for playing close games. “We’re lucky our defense has played really solid in overtime. I know it seems like an anomaly, but we’re just happy to get the wins.” Bryant’s (12–3, 4–0 NEC) Kevin Massa won the faceoff to start the second overtime, and the visitors kept possession for the first three minutes of the period. But defenseman Peter Johnson ’13 forced a turnover, and Yale cleared the ball into its offensive zone. With time winding down, the ball found its way behind the net and into the stick of attackman Matt Gibson ’12. The Elis’ leading scorer had two assists in the game, but had yet to find the net. Bryant defender Glenn Maiorano had done a good job keeping up with the crafty Long Island native, but this time Gibson would not be denied. He took Maiorano up the left side of the crease, stutter-stepped, and spun up towards the front of the goal. Gibson’s left-handed shot rocketed through the legs of Bryant goaltender Jameson Love with 1.7 seconds left on the clock.
Friday’s win came after a fourovertime victory at Brown last weekend and a 9–8 defeat of Stony Brook in the first overtime period earlier this week. Seven of the Elis’ 12 games have now been decided by a single goal. Despite dropping the first three of these contests, to Sacred Heat, No. 3 Cornell and No. 14 Princeton, the Bulldogs have come out on top in each of the last four. “Against Princeton and Cornell we saw some of the upper-echelon teams in the country,” Dempster said, “and playing against them and being close in those games builds character. Having that experience pays off in [close games] going forward.”
Jack Meyer has been incredible in overtime. He has 11 saves and only one goal against. RYAN POLLEY Yale defensive coordinator The matchup with Bryant not only featured a battle of Bulldogs — the Smithfield, R.I., school shares its mascot with Yale — but a battle between the No. 4 and No. 5 face-off men in the nation. Dylan Levings ’14 trails Massa by .005 points with a .641 winning percentage, but on Friday the Yale sophomore had his way with him at the X. Levings finished 16 of 25 for the game, putting in another strong performance against top competition. Earlier in the season he finished six of nine against a Cornell unit led by No. 15 Doug Tesoriero and 10 of 17 against
Princeton, the 17th-ranked faceoff team in the country. “I watched a lot of film on [Massa] and was pretty comfortable with what he was trying to do,” Levings said. “I just wanted to go out there and do my thing, and I was able to make adjustments when I had to.” It took almost 13 minutes for the teams to get on the scoreboard, but Bryant midfielder Matt Larson broke the knot with 2:17 left in the first quarter. Yale responded with goals from Dempster and captain Michael Pratt ’12 in the final minute of the period, and the Elis never trailed again. The teams battled for most of the game, and Yale was never able to pull away. The Elis led 6–3 midway through the third quarter, but Bryant went on a threegoal run to close the gap. Later, in the fourth quarter, Yale built another three-goal lead, but Bryant scored the final three goals of the game to tie the score at 10 and send the game into overtime. Defenseman Mason Poli scored Bryant’s final goal in transition with 21 seconds remaining in the game. Poli led his team in scoring with three goals, and the Elis had trouble stopping him in transition. Yet Yale was very effective in settled, six-on-six situations. Defender Michael McCormack ’13 had five caused turnovers, and netminder Jack Meyer ’14 finished with 13 saves. The Yale defense has surrendered only one
goal in 12 overtime periods, and Meyer has a 91 percent save percentage in overtime. “Jack Meyer has been incredible in overtime,” Yale defensive coordinator Ryan Polley said. “He has 11 saves and only one goal against. We’ve gotten timely saves, and we have a lot of experience on defense in Mike Pratt and Mark Dobrosky ’12. These guys are used to playing in those big situations, and we don’t make a lot of mental mistakes in overtime.” The Bulldogs were led on offense by Greg Mahony ’12, who finished with a hat trick for the second game in a row. Dempster also added two goals, while midfielders Ryan McCarthy ’14 and Colin Flaherty ’15 finished with two more points for the Bulldogs. Yale faces Harvard in its final game of the season this Saturday. The Bulldogs have clinched a spot in the Ivy League tournament, but the Crimson needs to win its final game to earn a spot of its own. “Last year we didn’t perform very well [against Harvard] and [head] coach [Andy Shay] stressed that we cannot have a repeat of that effort,” Dempster said. “We get to play them at home this time, and we have a chance to end their season. It’s a great opportunity for us to finish our regular season on the right note.” Contact JOHN SULLIVAN at john.sullivan@yale.edu .
YALE 11, BRYANT 10 YALE
2
1
4
3
0
1
13
BRYANT
1
1
4
4
0
0
9
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NEXT WEEK
SUNDAY, APR. 22 Dartmouth 8, Yale 4
WEDNESDAY, APR. 25 Yale vs. Army, 2:30 p.m.
BASEBALL IVY SCHOOL
W
L
%
W
L
%
1
Cornell
13
3
.812
27
11
.705
2
Dartmouth
11
5
.688
17
15
.531
3
Princeton
10
6
.625
17
17
.500
4
Columbia
9
7
.562
17
22
.436
Penn
7
9
.438
16
20
.444
Harvard
7
9
.438
11
27
.289
Brown
5
11
.312
8
29
.216
Yale
2
14
.125
9
30
.238
6
8
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NEXT WEEK
TUESDAY, APR. 24 Yale vs. Holy Cross, 6:30 p.m.
SATURDAY, APR. 21 Dartmouth 8, Yale 4
MEN’S LACROSSE IVY SCHOOL
W
L
%
W
L
%
5
0
1.000
9
3
.750
Cornell
4
1
.800
9
2
.818
3
Yale
3
2
.600
8
4
.667
4
Brown
2
3
.400
6
7
.462
5
Brown
2
3
.400
6
7
.462
6
Penn
1
4
.200
3
8
.273
Dartmouth
1
5
.167
3
9
.250
W. crew outraces Radcliffe learned a lot from,” captain Kathleen O’Keefe ’12 said of the event. The varsity four race was also fiercely contested. Though Radcliffe had built a two-seat lead by the 1,000-meter mark, the Elis used a higher stroke rate over the last 500 meters of the race to come from behind and earn a victory. The Bulldogs clocked in at 7:34.8, finishing 1.3 seconds ahead of Radcliffe. Yale’s second varsity four enjoyed a ten-second margin of victory over Harvard’s B and C boats, while Yale’s third varsity eight bested its Radcliffe counterpart by a little over six seconds. Though the Bulldogs had struggled in recent weeks to keep up with their competition, Porter said the team had simply
NEXT WEEK
FRIDAY, APR. 20 Yale 11, Bryant 10 (2OT)
SATURDAY, APR. 28 Yale vs. Harvard, 2:00 p.m.
WOMEN’S LACROSSE
taken longer to develop its peak speed than its opponents, many of which were nationally ranked teams. “The thing about a racing sport is getting to your top end speed at the right time of the year,” Porter said. “Our schedule was very challenging early this year, and we just weren’t up to speed as quickly as the other teams were. We seem to have found another gear in these last couple weeks, and we’re as fast as many other crews in our league, which is great. We’re gaining speed at the correct time.” The Bulldogs return to action this Saturday when they battle Brown for the Nat & Anne Case Cup in Providence, R.I. Contact MARIA GUARDADO at maria.guardado@yale.edu .
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Princeton
1
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OVERALL
IVY SCHOOL
W L
%
W L
%
Dartmouth
5
1
.833
10
3
.769
Penn
5
1
.833
7
5
.583
Cornell
4
2
.667
9
4
.692
Harvard
4
2
.667
8
6
.571
Princeton
4
2
.667
7
6
.538
6
Yale
2
5
.286
5
9
.357
7
Brown
1
5
.167
6
7
.462
8
Columbia
0
7
.000
2
12
.143
1
3
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CAROL HSIN/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Yale will look to build on this week’s win when it races Army on Saturday.
OVERALL
SATURDAY, APRIL 21 Cornell 17, Yale 9
NEXT WEEK
SATURDAY, APR. 28 Yale at Boston College, 1:00 p.m.
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YALE DAILY NEWS · MONDAY, APRIL 23, 2012 · yaledailynews.com
SPORTS
PEOPLE IN THE NEWS JARRET STOLL The Los Angeles Kings forward scored 4:27 into overtime to lift his team to a 2–1 victory over the Vancouver Canucks and its first series win since 2001. The Canucks had been the NHL’s top team in the regular season, but the Kings won their series 4–1.
Men’s tennis double faults BY ADLON ADAMS STAFF REPORTER In a disappointing turn of events, the men’s tennis team was defeated by two Ivy League rivals this weekend.
MEN’S TENNIS On the road Friday, the newly ranked No. 73 Bulldogs fell 5–2 to their Ancient Eight archrival, the No. 24 Crimson. Continuing its Ivy League competition, Yale hosted the No. 60 Big Green (18–3, 4–2 Ivy) for Yale’s Senior Day. but the Bulldogs were unable to come out with a win and lost again, 5–2. “We knew that [Harvard] would be very tough,” Marc Powers ’13 said. “We all played our hearts out and left everything on the court. We were not disappointed with our effort.” The Crimson quickly came out on top on Friday after winning the first two doubles matches at No. 2 and No. 3. At the No. 3 position, the pair of team captain Erik Blumenkranz ’12 and Joel Samaha ’12 lost first with a score 8–1, and No. 2 Patrick Chase ‘14 and John Huang ‘13 fell shortly after, 8–6. At No. 1, the No. 80 team of Daniel Hoffman ’13 and Marc Powers ’13 upset Harvard’s nationally ranked No. 57 pair in a close, back and forth 9–8 match. In the singles round, Harvard (13– 9, 2–3 Ivy) was ahead on every sin-
gle court after the first set. The Crimson quickly secured the victory when it won at the No. 6, No. 4 and No. 1 spots consecutively. Harvard’s No. 1, Jonathan Pearlman, was the first Ivy League player to defeat Huang, ending his nine-match winning streak. Hoffman won at No. 2, winning his fourth consecutive three-set match. Powers was also victorious at the No. 3 spot, defeating his opponent in three sets as well. “Harvard was really solid all the way down their singles lineup,” Zach Dean ’13 said. Hoffman noted that the team effort was there, but the bounces just weren’t going their way. Against the Big Green, Yale (13–10, 2–4 Ivy) was unable to win the doubles point for the second time in a row. The teams split the first two doubles matches: Dartmouth won first at No. 2, defeating Huang and Chase 8–5, but the duo of Hoffman and Powers was successful at the No. 1 position, coming away with a 9–7 victory. The senior pair of Blumenkranz and Samaha fell in a close 9–7 match at No. 3. Dartmouth also came away with the majority of the singles matches, winning four out of the six. Powers and Dean were the first to go at the No. 2 and No. 6 positions respectively, with Dean losing in a tough three sets. The deciding match came down to the No. 4 position, where Blumenkranz lost in another close three-set match.
Yale was victorious at the No. 1 and No. 3 spots. Huang had an easy 6–3, 6–0 win, and Hoffman came out with his fifth consecutive win, remaining undefeated in the Ivy League.
We knew that [Harvard] would be very tough. We all played our hearts out and left everything on the court. We are not dissapointed with our effort. MARC POWERS ’13 Men’s tennis “It was fun. It was a bit nostalgic being the last time playing in that facility,” Blumenkranz said, referring to the team’s last home match of the season at the Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center. “It was fun being out there with the rest of the guys, I’ve had a great time here at Yale.” The Elis will play No. 51 Brown in Providence, R.I., this coming weekend. Contact ADLON ADAMS at adlon.adams@yale.edu .
Elis upset by Cornell BY EUGENE JUNG STAFF REPORTER Three straight Ivy wins proved too great a task for the women’s lacrosse team.
Softball earns split against Dartmouth BY MASON KROLL STAFF REPORTER
WOMEN’S LACROSSE The Elis left their home turf to take on No. 13 Cornell on Saturday only to return with a 17–9 loss despite a hat trick by attacker Kerri Fleishhacker ’15. With their defeat and the victories of the three third-place teams this weekend, Cornell, Harvard and Princeton, the Bulldogs had to settle for sixth place in the Ivy League. “Cornell was experienced and skilled and with seven starting seniors. We entered the game as the underdog,” head coach Anne Phillips said. Although Yale midfielder Christina Doherty ’15 won the face-off and took the first draw control, the Big Red retook control of the game by picking up a ground ball 50 seconds into the first half and scored within the next minute. However, with Doherty winning the draw again, midfielder Cathryn Avallone ’15 scored to even the score only 90 seconds after the hosts’ first goal. After Cornell replied with another goal, captain Caroline Crow ’12 created an opportunity for attacker Devon Rhodes ’13 to even out the score. Then at 21:24 midfielder Ashley McCormick ’14 rallied past the field and fired a shot that took Cornell goalie off guard to take Yale one ahead of the home team. However, Yale’s momentum broke when the Big Red came back with three more goals. The Elis finished the first half with Fleishhacker adding one more. “Cornell’s offense is one of the most potent offenses our defense has faced this year, since they have multiple weapons,” goalkeeper Erin McMullan ’14 said. She added that the hosts had more ball possessions for most of the first half, and for Yale to give up only five goals in the first half was actually quite remarkable. However, in the second half, the Big Red (9–4, 4–2 Ivy) stepped up its offense, going on an allout scoring rampage against the Bulldogs. Within the first three minutes, Cornell rushed in two goals. Then a minute later, Yale’s Crow notched a goal of her own to reduce the scoring gap to two. Despite Fleishhacker’s attempt to narrow down the goal difference by scoring three goals for the Bulldogs, it was not enough to reverse the flow of the game that went to Cornell’s side early in the second half. Fleishhacker said the Cornell had a solid defensive unit that worked well together. She added that the defense consistently “swarmed the ball” when Yale had possession. Over the course of three min-
MARIA ZEPEDA/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Marc Powers ’13 earned a singles victory against Harvard, but Yale fell to its archrival, 5–2., on Friday. The Elis then lost to Dartmouth at home the next day.
EUGENE JUNG/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
The women’s lacrosse team fell to No. 13 Cornell, 17–9 on Saturday. utes, the hosts doubled their score to make the game 12–6 in their favor. Yale (5–9, 2–5 Ivy) tried to rally back, with the upperclassmen attackers Rhodes and Crow moving quickly to score two more for the Elis. With Fleishhacker’s hat trick goal, the Bulldogs rounded out their comeback attempt with three minutes remaining in regulation. Phillips said offensively, the team’s attack did not handle the defensive pressure well and needed to be more composed. As Cornell pounded in two more goals in the last two minutes, the Elis had no choice but to concede defeat. Despite fairly good matchups in defense, Yale ended up allowing 17 goals, 12 in the second half alone. “Unfortunately, their offense got fired up after halftime and we couldn’t keep up,” McMullan said. The Elis outdid the Big Red in draw controls, 15–13, and McMullan recorded 17 more saves than her Big Red counterpart. However, the Big Red had four times the number of shots that Yale did, 45–11, and committed half the number of turnovers, 20–10. “Ultimately the 20 turnovers doomed our chances of winning,” Phillips said. Phillips also said although Yale won draw controls, shot
extremely well, and McMullan had a season high 19 saves in goal, the team could not counter Cornell’s experience or its depth on the bench. The team has concluded its Ivy League season. The Bulldogs improved over last season’s standings, stepping up two notches and scoring a total of 54 goals in conference matches in comparison to 26 goals scored last season. “Our team has made great progress this year, though we had a lot of youth and inexperience,” Phillips said. She added that she is pleased with how hard the team has worked this season, and the experience gained will serve its program well in the future. The Elis will travel to Boston for their final match this season on Saturday for an away game against No. 17 Boston College. Contact EUGENE JUNG at eugene.jung@yale.edu .
CORNELL 17, YALE 9 CORNELL
5
12
17
YALE
4
5
9
With two wins against Dartmouth this weekend, the softball team is regaining momentum after what has been a disappointing season. The win marked the second and third Ivy League victories for the team this season. Two home runs by captain Christy Nelson ’13 and a career-first homer by Tori Balta ’14 buoyed the Bulldogs (10–30, 3–13 Ivy) to sweep Dartmouth on Saturday, though they lost both games on Sunday. “Based on our season so far, the split is a step in the right direction,” shortstop Meg Johnson ’12 said. In the first game on Saturday, Yale and Dartmouth (12–21, 5–11 Ivy) were quiet offensively for the first four innings. Johnson singled in the second inning and, after stealing two bases, reached home off of an illegal pitch to bring the Bulldogs their first run of the game. The Big Green responded with two runs of its own in the bottom of the second to secure a 2–1 lead. In the top of the fifth, Balta stepped up to the plate with one on and one out. She hit the ball out of the park in her first home run wearing Yale blue. The two runs she drove in gave the Bulldogs a 3–2 victory. Defensively, the Bulldogs excelled. Yale stopped Dartmouth with the bases loaded twice, ending the inning with three runners left on base. Pitcher Chelsey Dunham ’14 won her second game in a row and struck out four Big Green batters. “The wins were definitely a team effort,” Nelson said. “We had great pitching mixed with flawless defense, and we got the key hits at the right time. Our defense made some great plays on Saturday with runners in scoring position, which gave us a huge momentum advantage.” The Elis took another early lead in the second game. After Jennifer Ong ’13 and Balta singled, Johnson sealed the deal with a twoRBI double and soon reached home herself. Two more Bulldog runs — including a fifthinning home run by Nelson — brought the score to 5–2, and a bottom-of-the-sixth rally by Dartmouth was not enough to secure the win. Yale took its second win of the day with a final score of 5–4. Kristen Leung ’14 took the win for the Bulldogs, and Kylie Williamson ’15 gave Yale its first save of the season. On Saturday, the Elis outhit Dartmouth both games. “We played hard and well for all 14 innings on Saturday,” Johnson said. “Our defense was making smart plays, pitchers were doing their job and as hitters, [and] we connected when we needed to.” Sunday’s games were far less successful for the Bulldogs. In the first game, Dartmouth beat Yale 8–0 in six innings, keeping the Elis to two hits. The Big Green seized the advantage with four runs in the bottom of the first, and the Bulldogs could not recover. Yale fared slightly better in the second game. Down 8–1 in the top of the sixth, the Bulldogs attempted a rally. Nelson brought in two runs with her second homer of the weekend. Johnson and Sarah Onorato ’15 continued the rally with a single each, and Williamson walked to load up the bases. Although Kelsey Warkentine ’13 brought Johnson home, the Bulldogs left two runners on base and ended the game 8–4. The Big Green scored six of its runs in the bottom of the third. That inning, the Bulldogs had three errors, which contributed to three
unearned runs. Additionally, three runs came on Dartmouth’s last out. If the Bulldogs had put a stop to the inning, they may have won the game. “We have to keep building off our good atbats and focus on small goals like we did on Saturday,” Johnson said. “We need to focus on one inning and one at bat at a time.”
The wins were definitely a team effort. We had great pitching mixed with flawless defense, and we got the key hits at the right time. CHRISTY NELSON ’13 Captain, softball Last year, the Bulldogs ended their season with a 17–25 record, winning eight of 20 games against Ivy League opponents. With only six games left in the season — two against Army on Wednesday and four against Brown this weekend — the Bulldogs cannot match either record. However, significant wins can give the Elis an advantage in the Ivy League. Currently, Yale is tied with Brown for the worst record in the North Division of the Ivy League. “We can take a lot from this past weekend and apply it to our last week of season,” Johnson said. “We know we have the talent to beat Army and Brown. We just need to have a solid game in every aspect. We’ll bring that intensity and hard work this week and keep striving for these remaining victories.” The Bulldogs next face Army at home on Wednesday. Last year, Army swept Yale 12–0 and 6–1, but team members said the team is feeling confident going into Wednesday’s doubleheader. “I’ve learned that our team is capable of so much and everyone is able to come out and perform,” left fielder Riley Hughes ’15 said. “I’m looking forward to coming out strong and getting some more wins.” The first pitch is at 2:30 p.m. Contact MASON KROLL at mason.kroll@yale.edu .
YALE 3, DARTMOUTH 2 YALE
0
1
0
0
2
0
0
3
DARTMOUTH
0
2
0
0
0
0
0
2
YALE 5, DARTMOUTH 4 YALE
3
0
1
0
1
0
0
5
DARTMOUTH
0
0
2
0
0
2
0
4
DARTMOUTH 8, YALE 0 DARTMOUTH
4
1
0
0
1
2
8
YALE
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
DARTMOUTH 8, YALE 4 DARTMOUTH
0
1
6
0
1
0
x
8
YALE
0
0
0
1
0
3
0
4